Word: transplants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Economists recalled that, before the invention and commercial success of artificial silks in the past few years, abortive efforts to transplant silk production from the Orient to the New World were periodic. Cortes introduced silkworms in Mexico. James I tried to establish them in Virginia in 1609. A law still on the books though long dead requires Virginia farmers to plant six mulberry trees per annum for seven years. Just before .the Revolution a great fever for growing silk swept the colonies. In 1771 President Stiles of Yale and Mrs. Stiles raised 3,000 silkworms and sent their produce...
...species, or variety, of trout known as "golden trout." I have seen the trout and eaten them, but, being no fisherman, can only repeat what others say and thus escape approbrium, namely that they are found nowhere in the Sierras except in this limited locality and that attempts to transplant the spawn to other places do not produce the same fish. Again experts tell me they are simply rainbow trout, modified by the environment, and hence they change back...
...committee of the Student Council which suggests a plan for small colleges within the University is not so imaginative as to dream of an Oxford or a Cambridge on the banks of the Charles River. If it wished to be thoroughly initiative it would have no transplant the roots of English tradition with their growth of centuries, an incomparably harder task than supplying new elms for the Harvard Yard. A Magdalen or a Magdalene cannot be improvised. If the English colleges were imported and grafted on an American university they surely would suffer extraordinary sea change...
...start a buckeye is to plant the seed. It is a difficult tree to transplant. And if the Ohio Society of New York wishes?and it is a praiseworthy wish?to plant a grove of buckeyes on Long Island, I shall be glad this fall, to send them a peck of buckeye seeds?buckeyes we call them...
Theodor K o p p a n y i, experimental physiologist in the University of Chicago, has just made public the results of attempts to transplant the mysterious organ known as the spleen from one animal to another. The name of Koppanyi is familiar because of his attempts at transplanting a human eye (TIME, June 18, 1923, Oct. 20), which have apparently been successful thus far to a very limited extent, only in the case of rats. His new experiments indicate that the spleen can be transplanted in the case of certain lower forms of animal life, and perhaps...