Word: combating
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Fortnight ago from Athens, Ga., came word that Dr. H. J. Miller, professor of botany at the University of Georgia, had found an insect parasite known as bracon mellitor which he believes can be used to combat Boll Weevil. Its larvae will devour weevil larvae inside the bolls without damaging the cotton. Familiar to all entomologists is the general principle of pest control by parasites.* But before he could put his discovery into common use Dr. Miller had to hit upon a commercially practical method of spreading bracon mellitor larvae through weevil-infested cotton fields...
...California, about equal to Standard of Indiana, but below Standard of New Jersey. The two companies would distribute petroleum products equal to about 9% of the total U. S. consumption. Especially potent would be the new combination in battling the Royal Dutch-Shell group which has been engaged in combat with Standard of New York both here and abroad...
...Adopted resolutions appropriating $587,500 to combat pink bollworms in Arizona, authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to spend $2,500,000 to compensate quarantined cotton growers...
...perennial gladiatorial combat at Harvard between the proponents and opponents of research versus teaching, the debate rarely turns toward the pith of the controversy, namely the balance of research and development in the individual student. As a theory the whole question of the relative importance of research and teaching is debatable but since the Harvard attitude attaches significance to both these phases of education, a corresponding amount of attention must be paid to the influence of both teaching and research on the development of the student who seeks a reason for four years at college...
...lecture entitled "How the British Q Boats Fought the German Submarines" and illustrated by stereopticon slides, Campbell will give a vivid description of the most ingenious of the methods employed by the British Admiralty to combat the submarine menace. The Q boats, merchant vessels armed with concealed guns and making every effort to be torpedoed, decoyed twelve German submarines to destruction. As commander of the first of these novel units in the British Navy and later of several others. Admiral Campbell accounted for four of the enemy's deadly underwater crafts, which in April 1917 were so depleting British tonnage...