Word: transmitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...name proposed for an unknown substance whose removal from living cells seems to explain anesthesia. When certain water plants are soaked in distilled water their cells become unable to transmit stimuli, apparently because "R" is dissolved out. So the effect of everyday medicinal anesthetics may be due to a removal of "R" from human cells.-Drs. J. V. Osterhout and S. E. Hill of the Rockefeller Institute...
...contemporary implications of his teaching is not the desire to keep it free of exaggerated irrelevancies. It is the fear of being considered superficial and "popular." Or else it is the lack of ability to appreciate the vitality inherent in his subject, to say nothing of the ability to transmit a sense of this vitality to his students...
...Tutors are chosen for their ability to transmit learning, to stimulate students to thirst for knowledge...
These observations led to two of Dr. Morgan's unimpeachable genetic discoveries: 1) Lying in the rodlike chromosomes of the germ cells, like links of sausage, are ultramicroscopic units (genes) which transmit individual characteristics (say, brown eyes) from parent to child. 2) When the chromosomes of the two parents mingle in the egg (which ultimately becomes their child), the genes do not mix helter-skelter but "cross over" in groups. That is why, for example, in Drosophila, black body color tends to be inherited with purple eyes, vestigial wings, and a speck at the base of the wings...
Chief stumbling-block so far has been Medicine's failure to transmit encephalitis among experimental monkeys, rabbits and guinea-pigs. Last week Superintendent William George Patton of the St. Louis County Hospital cautiously suggested that man alone may be susceptible to epidemic encephalitis. In Baton Rouge, La., Herbert Brown, tuberculous ex-soldier, promptly offered himself as a human subject. Said he: "I cannot hope to be an old man. I cannot work and would like to do something useful for the world before...