Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...treatment of intestinal obstructions. Percy White Zimmerman, 51, and Albert Edwin Hitchcock, 38, plant physiologists of the Boyce Thompson Institute (Yonkers, N. Y.); the $1,000 prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: for a paper on plant hormones, including one which causes roots to sprout from any place on the stem if rubbed with the hormonal preparation. Dr. William Bosworth Castle, 38, associate professor of Harvard's School of Medicine; the Procter Award of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science: for showing that pernicious anemia may be due to inefficient digestive juices. Isaiah Bowman...
...brac, latent in the "Travels", and given them a separate existence, the satire being discarded. Disney has come a long way from the days when visual puns were the heart of an animated cartoon. You remember: Felix the Cat used to have trouble entering fourth-story windows, only to sprout columns of huge question marks out of his head and use them as the necessary ladder. Insead of this we now have visual metaphors. The break of day, for example, is represented by the somber heavens' splitting along the lines between the stars and falling to the earth in chips...
...value of the patent to a flat $1,000,000. Then he transferred the patent to a new concern of his own, granting the original operating company a manufacturing license, carried on their books at $3,250,000. Affiliates, dummies, acceptance companies, holding companies, securities companies began to sprout like weeds. And the patent was given another boost, this time...
Paper is a hot subject in the South, partly because of the conviction that Northern newsprint "interests" are blocking the flow of capital to their unborn industry, partly because Southern pines- slash, loblolly, longleaf, old field and Virginia-sprout like weeds. Slash pine grows as much as 6 ft. in a single year. And ardent Southern piners like Chemist Herty claim that if cultivated like field crops, slash pine could be harvested five years from the planting of seedlings. Ordinarily slash pine can be cut for pulp at an age of ten to 15 years, as against...
...first discoveries, of incalculable value to farmers, was that seeds sprout most quickly if kept cold (41°) and dry between harvest and planting. Others followed in slow but steady succession. Some kinds of apples with green-colored skins may be just as ripe and tasty as red apples but suffer in market competition because buyers like the appearance of red apples. It was learned that 48 hours of ultraviolet radiation turns green-colored apples a beautiful, even, overall shade...