Word: sprouted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Association of Refrigeration when their President Sir William Bate Hardy told them, during their convention in London fortnight ago: "A stream of air which has passed over an apple . . . contains some subtle emanations which profoundly influence other vegetable forms. Potatoes placed in the stream either do not sprout or, if they do. the sprouts are misshapen dwarfs, more like warts than anything else. Bananas are excited to a much more rapid ripening than ordinarily. It is only elderly apples which pour out these emanations, and the effect on young unripe apples is again curious, for they are stirred...
...sure-fire melodrama. Of the hot Pacific island where the rain monotonously rains and the characters get crescendo jitters, Milestone gets no illusion. The characters are not damp to the skin. Their clothes do not stick clammily to their flanks. The food does not spoil. Green mold does not sprout on everything. The heat is not heat at all. Faces are unsweated. Appetites are healthv. The weather does not. as in the play, exhaust the characters of energy, ravel out their nerves. Sadie Thompson (Joan Crawford) is no longer a harlot. She is a dull girl with an unfortunate past...
...rare sprout in the English literary herbarium is the philosophical romance: perhaps its most famed flowering is the late Joseph Henry Shorthouse's John Inglesant. Author Morgan's novel, acclaimed with broad "Ahs!" in England, the June choice of the U. S. Book-of-the-Month Club, twigs from the same literary branch. In a rhythmic, hypnotic style it shows philosophic conceptions rising in the lives of its main characters, those characters' lives falling back on philosophical conceptions...
...Boston last week a congress of art directors from all over the U. S. assembled in the Museum of Fine Arts to discuss their problems and their prospects. They were told that new art museums, despite Depression, continue to sprout like mushrooms over the continent. Said Director Laurence Vail Coleman...
...sure this was a sequoia tree and not a sprout from Paul Bunyan's famous cornstalk whose top, when it was cut, whistled through the air for six weeks before it hit the ground...