Word: beals
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...very long time, it appears. After five years Beal unearthed one of his botties and, lo, the seeds sprouted. He kept at the experiment, exhuming a bottle every five years, and found each time that samples of all varieties would germinate. In 1920 Beal changed the digging schedule to every ten years. At his death in 1924, at 91, the experiment was inherited by colleagues at Michigan State College (now University), who had been bequeathed a map showing where the remaining bottles were buried. By 1960 only three varieties of seed still grew. A decade later, one hardy weed survived...
...again to warmth and light. The seedlings will be nurtured until they produce seeds of their own, in the hope that the progeny will offer clues about the mutating effects of 100 years' exposure to the natural radiation in the soil. Enough bottles remain buried to carry on Beal's experiment until 2040. More time might help; by some accounts, seeds from the tombs of the pharaohs have sprouted thousands of years after they were buried...
...Jane Beal, press secretary in Kennedy's Boston campaign headquarters, said yesterday the senator will address the public for about 45 minutes in the Forum. The speech will be shown simultaneously on closed circuit television in Sanders Theater...
After he speaks, Kennedy will go directly to Sanders Theater "just to greet the students and thank them for coming out," Beal said...