Word: transplanting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mass Murderer." In his daily life Schweitzer takes his own injunction to revere life so seriously that it sometimes astonishes those around him. He himsel" reports that the natives consider his view impractical and perverted when he tell them they must transplant young palm trees instead of cutting them down when a clearing is to be made. A Lambarene colleague reports that when a grapefruit was brought to Schweitzer as he worked late at night, he would always drop a spoonful of the juice on the floor beside him for the ants. "Look at my ants," he would say. "Just...
...used for insemination (natural or artificial), it has always taken a purebred cow to produce a purebred calf. Scrub cows would produce half-breeds of unpredictable value. At Purdue University in 1941, Ray Umbaugh got the idea of carrying artificial insemination a step further. He asked himself: Why not transplant ova from pedigreed cows to scrubs...
...transplant successfully any play from its original setting to modern times seems go demand that it have either a plot of some universal theme or else a pertinent parallel to the present. The Idler Players obviously felt the latter to be true, which may be so. Counterparts of Mr. Congreve's people certainly do exist today, but the people on the stage at Agassiz are confused and confusing hybrids, standing with one leg in the Seventeenth and one in the Twentieth Century...
Producer Maurice Evans, who dropped $49,000 trying to transplant The Linden Tree to Broadway, couldn't-say he hadn't been warned. "Why on earth are you in management?" Bernard Shaw once asked Evans. "It is the ruination of actors. Instead of putting money into the theater you should be taking money...
...will probably transplant Crisler's system here intact," Barclay said yesterday. "Naturally, he'll have some of his own ideas, but his basic philosophy will be like Crisler...