Word: repeatability
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...actual experimenting, for Dr. Loewi is remarkably clumsy, breaking almost everything he touches. This characteristic almost ruined Dr. Loewi's career a decade ago. He asserted that a certain substance inhibited the action of insulin in the body. When colleagues complained that they could not repeat his experiments, he admitted that neither could he because assistants on whom he had relied in the first place had made an error. His frankness in admitting his blunder put him back in the graces of fellow scientists...
...students on all sides of him) and then washed it down with another wineglassful of water. This was pure nitric acid, and anyone who knows what that is will understand what that means. I wonder whether any of the various gentlemen who have written to you would like to repeat this nitric acid "trick" in the science laboratory of any university before the professors...
...paragraph headed "Outstanding Events," Dr. Abbot did not fail to give prominent mention in last week's report to his studies of solar radiation and terrestrial weather. Long and laborious research has convinced him that world weather tends to repeat itself in 23-year cycles, which he finds not only in longtime weather records but in tree rings, Great Lakes water levels, sediment laid down by ancient glaciers, annual catches of cod and mackerel. Temperature and precipitation forecasts for 1934 in 30 U. S. cities made on the basis of the Abbot cycle turned out, he declared, two-thirds...
That evening in Jordan Hall, the Russian Symphonic Choir is to present a program composed entirely of Russian music. On Thursday evening in Sanders Theatre, the WPA group is to repeat Cesar Franck's choral work, 'The Beatitudes, which they gave last week...
...Minnesota teams were feared solely for the Norse power supplied to them by the huge muscular Swedes with which they were amply staffed. The current increase in Minnesota's football prestige (the team was unofficially ranked as national champion in 1934 and 1935, is considered likely to repeat this year) is the result of the addition of brains to its football teams. The knack which recent Minnesota teams have developed of producing touchdown plays at the proper moment, seems supernatural only because it is supremely utilitarian. Uram's 75-yd. run last week was actually the ultimate refinement...