Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopped into an automobile to keep an appointment at a suburban hospital. There he underwent a cholelithotomy (removal of gallstones), and for the next few months Mr. Atterbury disappeared from the news, except for persistent reports that he was dying. Certainly he was not at his office. Late last autumn he put his yacht Arminia into Miami, summoned newshawks aboard. "I'm the livest, kickingest person you ever saw," he fumed. "I haven't felt so well since last July...
...found by Dr. Louis Otto Kunkel to be carried from plant to plant by a small insect called the leafhopper. Dr. Kunkel also discovered that the leafhopper very rarely flew more than three or four feet above the earth. Obvious leafhopper foil: a 4-ft. screen fence. In early autumn a plot of asters thus protected was only 20% diseased whereas 80% of the flowers just outside the fence were damaged. Last week Dr. Kunkel, now on the Rockefeller Institute staff, reported to a meeting of bacteriologists, pathologists and immunologists in Manhattan that plants which recover from mosaic disease...
...Yonkers, N. Y., on the banks of the broad Hudson, is the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research. Since last autumn the Institute's scientists and technicians have been at work on a greenhouse heated & lighted by electric lamps. Last week Director William Crocker announced that the electric greenhouse was no longer a hopeful experiment but a successful fact...
...nine paintings, "Cyclamen," "Spider Wort," "Yellow Iris," "Spring Flowers," "Victorian Parlour," "Autumn Flowers," "Peonies," "Still Life," and "Bee Balm" are arranged over the book shelves, which are covered with light brown paper to give a monotone background...
Last week the Crop Reporting Board of the Department of Agriculture gave its second answer for 1935. U. S. farmers had planted 44,306,000 acres in winter wheat last autumn, said the report. Drought and dust had forced them to abandon 12,405,000 acres. The wheat standing on the remaining 31,901,000 acres on April 1 was estimated to yield 435,499,000 bu.- 69% of normal. That was slightly more than last year's yield, but far below the 618,000,000-bu. average of the last five years. East of the Mississippi, and particularly...