Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Scab to Smut. The war against wheat rust is at least as old as the ancient Egyptians. For 700 years the Romans propitiated a special god of stem rust, Robigo. But Elvin Stakman was one of the first to plumb the secrets of plant fungi growth. He discovered that every fungus contains a number of parasitic strains, and that a single fungus cell may produce thousands of varieties which look alike but differ in their plant tastes...
Presenting Julie Haydon in Dale Eunson and Hagar Wilde's psychological thriller, the Cambridge Summer Theatre has spared none of the trimmings. Miss Haydon has long been a favorite with both Broadway and summer stock patrons; Andrew Mack's setting is bound to bring designing offers from the main stem, and the acting of the supporting cast is of an unusually high caliber...
...bulldog's tenacity. As chairman of the powerful House Civil Service Committee, he recently took a look at a bill which another smiling, stubborn man, General Henry Harley Arnold, has been trying to shove through Congress. What he saw made Bob Ramspeck clamp his teeth on his pipe stem...
Maury Maverick, fluent, fiery but literate Texas talker, railed against what he called Washington's "gobbledygook" language. To employes of the Smaller War Plants Corp. Chairman Maverick wrote: "Let's stop 'pointing-up' programs, 'finalizing' contracts that 'stem from' district, regional, or Washington 'levels.' There are no 'levels,' Washington local government is as high as Washington government. . . . Anyone using the words 'activation' or 'implementation' will be shot...
...unmistakably naming his choice. There were 75 Democrats in the Senate then. Caucusing, they threw their ballots into Carter Glass's battered old Panama. The first 74 to be counted were evenly divided; the 75th was for Alben Barkley. When the result was announced, he bit off the stem of his briar pipe...