Word: bean
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bean, the main speaker for the evening, will discuss the long-range political implications of the recent election, with a side explanation of where his rival pollsters went off the track in predicting a Republican sweep this year...
...Louis Bean, the only political analyst who predicted President Truman's re-election, will share the lecture platform with Associate Professor Louis Hartz and Professor Alvin Hansch tonight in a discussion of "1948 Elections and After." The meeting will take place in Emerson D at 7:30 p.m. under the auspices of the Liberal Union and Radcliffe's Students for Democratic Action...
...drug to cure human ailments, it proved worthless. The Upjohn Co. gave the new drug to the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station at East Lansing to see what effect it had on plants. In strong solutions, it killed young bean and oat seedlings. Apparently actidione was good for nothing...
...greenhouse near the slain seedlings were some grown-up bean plants badly infected with powdery mildew. Remembering that actidione was supposed to kill fungi (including mildews), the Michigan scientists sprayed them with a weak solution. In 48 hours the mildew disappeared. They made the solution still weaker and tried it on other afflicted beans. It worked like a charm in dilutions as great as one part per million (1 oz. to 7,497 gals. of water...
...Harvard is now worth the price of admission. And I suspect that we have another Frank Leahy arising in the land of the pork and the bean...