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Word: piemeisel (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1928-1928
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Last fortnight two plant explorers, Robert Louis Piemeisel and L. W. Kephart of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, who had been nine months questing for grass in Africa, returned with 160 varieties. They had suffered from extreme cold in the highlands of Kenya and Tanganyika, had gathered grass seeds within sight of glaciers 200 feet thick, had faced down an elephant in a bamboo jungle, had brought back with them samples of 75% of all the forage grasses of the region. Their hope is to lengthen the season of green pastures throughout the land, thereby reducing the cost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Green Grass | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

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