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Most obvious door to the central mysteries of life is protoplasm, the basic stuff of living cells. An intriguing characteristic of all raw protoplasm is its "streaming"-a flow like watery jelly. For some years Dr. William Seifriz, professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, has cultured an exceedingly primitive, golden yellow slime mold called Physarum polycephalum, just about the lowest observable form of life. In its streaming he has clocked a major rhythm of about 45 seconds (TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Rather like a primordial heartbeat, this pulse may be the ancestor of all real heartbeats...
...American Journal of Digestive Diseases brought into the open a bitter dispute of long standing between physicians and surgeons. Ulcers of the stomach, most doctors believe, are caused by too much acid in the digestive juices. Too much acid corrodes the stomach lining at sensitive points, leaving a raw wound. But why some people have a constant gush of acid, instead of a gentle trickle at mealtime, is a mystery to doctors. Certain it is that tobacco and alcohol do a delicate stomach no good. Many authorities hold that ulcers are the fruits of temperament, for only worrying, sensitive, high...
...Gaullists were pressing their luck elsewhere, as much as anything to keep colonists from succumbing to Axis pressure and Vichy subservience. The distance is too great, through too country, for Gabon or the Cameroons to serve as an alternative point of ingress to the Sudan. But some of the raw materials which the French and British West African colonies produce are cocoa, vegetable oils, gold, manganese, timber...
...order to stop Japan's expansion in the Far East, the 16 alumni made three specific proposals of action: (1) "We must deprive Japan of raw Materials which she must have to wage effective war.... Moreover there should be an embargo on imports from Japan...
...these details emerged, the Yale Record broke off relations with the News, described the proposed celebration as "a raw and vulgar exhibition." The Smith College Scan printed a bitter editorial. Miss Juliana Cutting, a Manhattan social secretary, wired: "SORRY, NEVER HEARD OF SADIE...