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Example sentences for "cultures"

Lexicographically close words:
cultura; cultural; culturally; culture; cultured; culturist; culturists; cultus; culum; culverin
  1. The ability of a culture finally to pound all of its swords--its intellectual ones as well as its steel ones--into ploughshares must be some kind of least common denominator for cultures that are headed for the stars.

  2. There are many among the cultures of the stars who would consider your race deviant and deadly.

  3. Pure cultures may be bought for a few shillings in the open market.

  4. Motherhood is the channel through which these cultures flow.

  5. The immigrant brings the possibilities of all these things to our shores, but where is the opportunity to reproduce in the New World the cultures of the old?

  6. This is now known to be an error, as cultures and examinations made from the blood and various parts of the body have shown the presence of the typhoid bacillus in almost every organ and tissue.

  7. Upon injecting cultures from this sputum into guinea-pigs, the latter died in one-quarter of the time that it usually took them to succumb to a similar dose of an ordinary culture of the pneumococcus.

  8. It belongs neither to the foodgatherers of the west nor to the hunting cultures of the east--it is something sui generis.

  9. To ascribe it to anyone of its bordering cultures is to lose the dynamic aspect of the cultural evolution of the tribe.

  10. But the only data sent that had any definiteness set forth the bacterial counts made of plate cultures of stools of one patient before and after the administration of Trimethol Capsules.

  11. Bouillon cultures of typhoid bacillus forty-eight hours old, and a suspension of forty-eight-hour agar cultures of typhoid bacillus in sterile salt solution were used for the experiment.

  12. Duplicate experiments were made with cultures of typhoid bacillus as above in bouillon and agar plates containing the same amount of chlorlyptus and incubated at 37 C.

  13. This vaccine is said to be made from killed cultures of Streptococcus, Pneumococcus, Micrococcus catarrhalis, Staphylococcus aureus, and Staphylococcus albus.

  14. Welch, pathologist of the Lying-in Hospital, found that rabbits infected with lethal doses of pneumococcus cultures intravenously were saved by large doses of camphorated oil; fragmentary protocols are given.

  15. That this frequently occurs in cultures in vitro is shown by the fact that yeast contamination may practically eradicate the growth of certain other organisms.

  16. Experiment with streptococcus: Cultures of streptococcus in blood agar three days old were suspended in olive oil (sterile), and chlorlyptus was added in the proportions of 1, 5 and 10 per cent.

  17. Daus also found that agar and broth cultures of streptococcus shaken with Formamint saliva remained sterile.

  18. A child born to parents of differing cultures will, as far as possible, receive the benefits of each culture most favorable to the child.

  19. I am sure those of you who have lived among the true Negroes and true Bantu, will agree with me that these cultures differ materially.

  20. Crossed races are always at the same time crossed cultures and crossed moralities: they are, as a rule, more evil, cruel, and restless.

  21. While the eyes of the wild fruit fly Drosophila ampelophila are red, Morgan[185] noticed in one of his cultures a male that had white eyes.

  22. In 1897 Kraus discovered that if the filtrates from cultures of bacteria (e.

  23. Noguchi has succeeded in obtaining pure cultures from the infected tissues of the rabbit.

  24. To identify the bacillus a piece of the membrane from the swab is rubbed on a cover glass, dried, and stained with methylene blue or other basic stain; or cultures may be made on agar or other suitable medium.

  25. The Conflict and Fusion of Cultures 771 3.

  26. In our science they must be found by exploration, not only of the cultures still existent in living form, but also of the buried cultures of past ages.

  27. Rivers in his study of Melanesian and Hawaiian cultures was impressed by the persistence of fundamental elements of the social structure.

  28. The problem of origin is the first and often the most perplexing problem which the study of primitive cultures presents.

  29. Finally, what is the ultimate source of customs, beliefs, languages, religious practices, and all the varied technical devices which compose the cultures of different peoples?

  30. The Conflict and Fusion of Cultures The contacts and transmission of cultures have been investigated in different regions of social life under different titles.

  31. If it is found in a restricted number of cases, it may still have evolved through some such instrumentality acting under specific conditions that would then remain to be determined by analysis of the cultures in which the feature is embedded.

  32. They are mostly isolated rural populations who have remained to a large extent outside of the cosmopolitan cultures of the cities.

  33. One of the questions that has arisen in the study, particularly the comparative study, of cultures is: how far any existing cultural trait is borrowed and how far it is to be regarded as of independent origin.

  34. The fundamental weakness of most of the attempts hitherto made to analyze existing cultures is that they have had their starting-point in the study of material objects, and the reason for this is obvious.

  35. Against the walls Tom could see the great hydroponic vats that held the yeast and algae cultures that fed the crew of the ship.

  36. But in Western Europe, including Britain, there were really three distinct cultures during the so-called "Transition Period".

  37. Certain elements in Aurignacian and Magdalenian cultures appear to have persisted in our midst until comparatively recent times, especially in connection with burial customs and myths regarding the "sleeping heroes" in burial caverns.

  38. These cultures were associated with the movements of new peoples in Europe.

  39. I've felt that way a lot of times in different cultures and different societies.

  40. You handle different human cultures for twenty-five years and you get to the point where you can tell if people are lying or not.

  41. Possibly alien cultures whom his superior genius for organizing would enable him to dominate.

  42. And in a million years, who knew what cultures would learn to pilot vessels through space and come his way to revive him?

  43. Thus limited in their native culture, the Roman upper class were inevitably much affected by higher foreign cultures when they met these under conditions of wealth and leisure.

  44. He will be well advised to control the treatment by taking cultures from the nose to make sure that the bacteria are there, determine the variety present and, if possible, have an autogenous vaccine made up for treatment.

  45. We have two kinds of vaccines already, the cow-pox vaccine and the killed cultures of bacteria introduced by Wright.

  46. As cow-pox vaccine is the greatest preventive we know, the word vaccine might be justified when applied to the bacterial cultures or to the pollens or to any preventative of disease.

  47. Still, the word vaccine for killed bacterial cultures has been advertised so deeply into the medical mind that it is firmly rooted there and not likely to be disturbed by mere considerations of etymology.

  48. One American house makes a laudable attempt at a more exact terminology by calling the killed cultures of bacteria bacterins.

  49. Local cultures of minor importance have not been shown.

  50. All these cultures were at first independent.

  51. Our knowledge of both these cultures is of quite recent date and there are many enigmas still to be cleared up.

  52. Regions of the principal local cultures in prehistoric times.

  53. The Yang-shao culture The various cultures here described gradually penetrated one another, especially at points where they met.

  54. These heterogeneous elements with their divergent cultures failed in the long run to hold together in this long but extremely narrow strip of territory, which was almost incapable of military defence.

  55. Martin Ficker to the fact, brought out in his experiments, that cultures of microbes are affected by the glass of the tubes in which they are made.

  56. Fleas and bugs that have fed upon animals which have been infected by cultures of high virulence convey infection by means of bites, and the more certainly so the more virulent the culture with which the first animal was inoculated.

  57. Cultures made from fly tracks and excreta show many bacteria present.

  58. In cultures made from flies he found great numbers of B.

  59. Yet, what do we find on considering the aboriginal cultures of these regions?

  60. Another tendency that is highly characteristic of all cultures is the rationalistic explanation of what reason never gave rise to.

  61. As I have already pointed out, it is not sufficient to bring two cultures into contact in order to have a perfect cultural interpenetration.

  62. The question naturally obtrudes itself: If the Scandinavians obtained their civilization from the Southeast, how did the Oriental cultures themselves originate?

  63. As cultures cannot contravene psychological principles so they cannot, except in a limited measure, override geographical factors.

  64. Nevertheless, before peoples can communicate their cultures to others with whom they come into contact, they must first evolve these cultures.

  65. Among the quaint conceits with which primitive cultures abound is that of attaching to particular numbers a peculiar character of sanctity.

  66. Besides these, there are a certain number of maladies that seem as if they must be due to the Bacteriaceæ, although a demonstration of the fact by the method of cultures and inoculation has not as yet been attempted.

  67. All the beast faunas and all the human cultures from the eras of the chinless Heidelberg and Piltdown men to our own time will seem in that remote perspective practically contemporaneous.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cultures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.