Word: acacias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yale's Laboratory of Physiology, Dr. de Rezende developed a simpler glue: a solution of gum acacia (fortified with vitamin B). But despite this glue, he noted that a severed nerve tends to retract both ways so that connection of the ends is still difficult. This tension can be avoided, Dr. de Rezende found, by inserting a nerve graft between the severed ends. On the legs of monkeys, rabbits and dogs he performed some 60 nerve-grafting operations, taking his grafts from dead animals of the same species. Nearly half his operations he termed successful: the animals regained good...
...generation ago, the Australians had learned most of their tricks from the 19th-Century French Barbizon landscapists, showed that they had been too busy pioneering to develop a distinct tradition of their own. The Australia they painted looked like Texas-a Texas with blue eucalyptus and mauve acacia trees, sun-bleached to pastel colors...
...mimosa-like flower of the acacia family, the wattle is worn (in season) by Australians as a national emblem...
Paul V. McNutt, federal social security administrator, visited Cambridge last night to attend the annual alumni reunion of the Harvard Acacia Club...