All 31 Uses of
principle
in
Arrowsmith
- But now find out the Why, the underneath principle.†
Chpt 6 *
- It was all so much easier, now that he was partly freed from the tyrannical honesty of Gottliebism, from the unswerving quest for causes which, as it drove through layer below layer, seemed ever farther from the bottommost principles, from the intolerable strain of learning day by day how much he did not know.†
Chpt 10
- Then there's another—this is a minor thing; it doesn't try to drive home general abstract principles, but it'd surprise you the effect it's had on careless housewives, who of course don't mean to neglect the health of their little ones and merely need instruction and a little pep put into them, and when they see a card like this, it makes 'em think: Boil the milk bottles or by gum You better buy your ticket to Kingdom Come.†
Chpt 19
- The principle of the centrifuge is that of the cream-separator.†
Chpt 26
- He stated in the conclusions of his first notes: "I have observed a principle, which I shall temporarily call the X Principle, in pus from a staphylococcus infection, which checks the growth of several strains of staphylococcus, and which dissolves the staphylococci from the pus in question."†
Chpt 28
- He stated in the conclusions of his first notes: "I have observed a principle, which I shall temporarily call the X Principle, in pus from a staphylococcus infection, which checks the growth of several strains of staphylococcus, and which dissolves the staphylococci from the pus in question."†
Chpt 28
- He discovered an X Principle which dissolved chairs, tables, human beings.†
Chpt 28
- The X Principle may not just apply to staph.†
Chpt 28
- Or maybe it's a chemical principle, an enzyme.†
Chpt 28
- He was always sterilizing flasks, preparing media of various hydrogen-ion concentrations, copying his old notes into a new book lovingly labeled "X Principle, Staph," and adding to it further observations.†
Chpt 28
- He tried, elaborately, with many flasks and many reseedings, to determine whether the X Principle would perpetuate itself indefinitely, whether when it was transmitted from tube to new tube of bacteria it would reappear, whether, growing by cell-division automatically, it was veritably a germ, a sub-germ infecting germs.†
Chpt 28
- When he was sure that the X Principle did reproduce itself indefinitely, so that in the tenth tube it grew to have as much effect as in the first, then he solemnly called on Gottlieb and laid before him his results, with his plans for further investigation.†
Chpt 28
- At what temperature is the activity of the Principle at its maximum?†
Chpt 28
- What the X Principle was—chemical or germ—he could not determine, but certainly the original Principle flourished.†
Chpt 28
- What the X Principle was—chemical or germ—he could not determine, but certainly the original Principle flourished.†
Chpt 28
- When he added a drop containing the Principle to a growth of staphylococcus which was a gray film on the solid surface of agar, the drop was beautifully outlined by bare patches, as the enemy made its attack, so that the agar slant looked like moth-eaten beeswax.†
Chpt 28
- No X Principle appeared in any of the new boils, and sadly he went to Gottlieb.†
Chpt 28
- Ah, den the X Principle may be present in the intestinal contents.†
Chpt 28
- In a week he had obtained the Principle from intestinal contents and from other gluteal boils, finding an especial amount in boils which were "healing of themselves"; and he transplanted his new Principle, in a heaven of triumph, of admiration for Gottlieb.†
Chpt 28
- In a week he had obtained the Principle from intestinal contents and from other gluteal boils, finding an especial amount in boils which were "healing of themselves"; and he transplanted his new Principle, in a heaven of triumph, of admiration for Gottlieb.†
Chpt 28
- He extended his investigation to the intestinal group of organisms and discovered an X Principle against the colon bacillus.†
Chpt 28
- At the same time he gave some of the original Principle to a doctor in the Lower Manhattan Hospital for the treatment of boils, and from him had excited reports of cures, more excited inquiries as to what this mystery might be.†
Chpt 28
- You wander off monkey-skipping and flap-doodling with colon bacillus before you have finish with staph—before you haf really begun your work— before you have found what is the NATURE of the X Principle?†
Chpt 28
- When the work on the X Principle had gone on for six weeks, the Institute staff suspected that something was occurring, and they hinted to Martin that he needed their several assistances.†
Chpt 29
- Perhaps the X Principle would develop only in the test-tube; perhaps it had no large value for human healing.†
Chpt 29
- It iss a pity, Martin, but you are not the discoverer of the X Principle.†
Chpt 29
- D'Herelle of the Pasteur Institute has just now published in the Comptes Rendus, Academie des Sciences, a report— it is your X Principle, absolute.†
Chpt 29
- Even got to take his name for it, for my own X Principle!†
Chpt 29
- On his way home he was planning to experiment on the Shiga dysentery bacillus with phage (as henceforth he called the X Principle), planning to volley questions and criticisms at D'Herelle, hoping that Tubbs would not discharge him for a while, and expanding with relief that he would not have to do his absurd premature paper on phage, that he could be lewd and soft-collared and easy, not judicious and spied-on and weighty.†
Chpt 29
- He was as absorbed and happy and nervous as in the first days of the X Principle.†
Chpt 30
- As well as Martin he loved irregularity; by principle he never had his meals at the same hours two days in succession, and by choice he worked all night and made poetry, rather bad poetry, at dawn.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(principle) a basic rule or beliefThe exact meaning of principle can depend upon its context. For example:
- "our guiding principles" -- basic moral beliefs that guide decisions and behavior
- "electromagnetic principles" -- rules describing how the world works
- "She lacks principles." -- lacks moral guidelines
- "We agree in principle." -- about important basic beliefs