Word: agar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...good reason for the Advertiser's potency is its editor: farm-born, foppish Grover Cleveland Hall, who ranks with Louisville's Herbert Agar, Richmond's Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, as an editorial influence in the South. When former Governor James M. Cox of Ohio bought the Atlanta Journal last year (TIME, Dec. 25), he offered Editor Hall $10,000 a year-fabulous salary for a Southern editor-and a $25,000 stock interest to leave the Advertiser, move to Atlanta. Publisher Hudson, no piker, heard of the offer, promptly met it, making 52-year-old Grover Hall...
...find out, he devised a new experiment. To perform it, he takes a little piece of the mold, works it into a sort of dumbbell shape-two blobs connected by a thin strand. He puts this into an air chamber divided into two compartments by a block of agar (marked C in the diagram). The two blobs, a and b, are in separate chambers but are connected by the strand which runs through a small hole in the agar. Protoplasmic streaming from a to b and vice versa can take place through the strand...
Inconclusive as this battle of words was, it proved that Election Day had brought no truce between the New Deal and the press, and it set up a line along which they might be preparing to fight it out. Said Editor Herbert Agar of the pro-Roosevelt Louisville Courier-Journal: "If I understand the Secretary correctly, I do not think he has a strong point. There is a lot to say against the press, but the fact that it is against an individual does not prove it is not free...
Editor of the Courier-Journal since last January is lanky, solemn Herbert Agar, 43, onetime diplomat, novelist, critic, historian. For the last six months the Courier-Journal has been a fiery advocate of aid to Britain. Editor Agar was one of 30 U. S. citizens who announced last June that they were in favor of immediate war on Germany...
...Gallup poll last fortnight showed 58% of Kentucky's voters for Franklin Roosevelt. Editor Agar, after much soul-searching, spoke himself for Roosevelt too, and the Courier-Journal (like the Roosevelt-hating St. Louis Post-Dispatch last month) bought a page in the New York Times to announce its stand...