Word: search
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...endless search for a criminal substance which can be proved guilty of causing the explosive growth of cancer cells, suspicion has settled on an enzyme, hyaluronidase, already known to be a "spreading factor." Last week a slim, blonde, 24-year-old graduate student at the University of Wyoming announced that she had picked up another jot of evidence against hyaluronidase: it is found in abnormally large amounts of sarcoma (cancer of the connective tissues) in mice -a disease much like human sarcoma...
Savage Beasts. In those days, Chagall walked the streets from noon to nightfall in search of subjects to paint. Back in his room he worked under a single light until, as he wrote, "the petrol lamp outside in the street clashed with the blue of the predawn sky." But few Parisians paid Chagall's nightmarish canvases much heed. Just before the Russian Revolution he returned to Vitebsk, where he founded a school of fine arts...
...Three years later, when beaver-rich General Ashley retired from the field and sold his interests to Trapper Smith and two other lieutenants, they lost no time in organizing an 18-man party and plunging into the unexplored land south of the Great Salt Lake in a search for new trapping grounds. Although Mexican-held California was one of their objectives, they "literally went, out into a new country not knowing whither they went," traveling by rivers, and ancient Indian trails...
...they got to Mission San Gabriel, near the "pueblo of Los Angeles." Nobody took any note of it at the time, but "Smith's appearance in California marked the completion of the Anglo-American's long march across the continent, the fulfillment of his age-old search for a highway to the western...
...Superior newspaper promised the man a gala reception, if he could be identified. The search started yesterday. "We'll find that man," said Robert P. Hyde '51, co-chairman of the Drive, "if we have to examine every one of the 5,000 contribution cards...