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under normal conditions remain dormant
Many other plants produce far more buds than ever develop into growing tissues, and buds which, under normal conditions, remain dormant, under altered conditions start into growth and so provide for an "adaptation" of the total mass of the growing plant to correspond with the altered conditions of growth.
— from The Chemistry of Plant Life by Roscoe Wilfred Thatcher

up nobody could reach Dr
The communications system with Command was all screwed up; nobody could reach Dr. Andros; everybody was ordered to stay at their posts and not take a break; and there had even been what sounded like gunfire from the sector where the clean room was.
— from Project Cyclops by Thomas Hoover


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