Word: seed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expensive land on the Riviera and make a fresh start. In less than a decade, the Peace rose was blossoming on some 30 million bushes throughout the world. "How strange to think," wrote Francis Meilland in his diary, "that all these millions of rosebushes sprang from a tiny seed no bigger than the head of a pin-a seed we might so easily have overlooked or neglected in a moment of inattention, or which might have been relished as a tidbit by some hungry field mouse...
Compounding the confusion, marijuana itself is an inexact term. All marijuana comes from the female hemp plant, Cannabis sativa, which grows worldwide. As the plants ripen, their flower and seed heads exude a resin that contains the highest natural concentration of active cannabis chemicals. The pure resin is hashish, a combination of powerful chemicals. Hashish, by Giordano's own testimony, rarely reaches...
What the Mexicans christened marijuana (literally "Mary Jane") is a variable combination of female cannabis seed heads with leaves and chopped-up stalks. At best, say U.S. pharmacologists, the mixture is only about one-tenth as strong as hashish. Marijuana is illegally imported into the U.S., mainly from Mexico, either loose or in the form of pressed bricks, called "keys" (for kilos), weighing 2.2 lbs. Connoisseurs strain out the coarse stalks before rolling it into cigarettes or packing it loosely into long-stemmed, cooler-smoking pipes. For $5, anyone almost anywhere can buy enough through his office boy or teen...
Working under a grant from Canada s National Research Council, she placed chilled, water-soaked wheat seed in chambers that provide optimum light temperature and humidity for growth' Into all but the experimental control chambers she piped continuous tones of either 5,000 or 12,000 cycles per second. Every week or two during their first eight weeks of growth, randomly selected seedlings were measured and weighed, and their roots, leaves and shoots counted. To decrease the chance error, the entire experiment was repeated ten times over a period of nearly two years...
This summer dry, sound-treated seeds be planted outside the laboratory on an experimental farm, where they will sprout, reach maturity and produce the grain yield per plant shows a substantial increase over plants from untreated seed, Dr.Weinberger be11eves, the time may be ripe for practical use of the sound technique For only $300, she says, a sma11 farmer could then buy an oscillator and a speaker to stimulate his wheat seed into highly profitable growth...