Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since last spring when a Berkeley, Calif, surgeon sawed two holes in her skull "to let out the pain," as she understood the purpose of the operation, Dema Dunlap, 23, a buxom, introspective epileptic, had an irresistible compulsion to finger her scalp where it lay sewn over the trephine holes. The soft spots, yielding under pressure of her finger tips, felt like the germinal depressions of a coconut...
...Angeles last week had a perforated brain almost as bizarre as Berkeley's. Someone drove a knife into the head of one Frank Hill, Negro, and broke off the handle (see cut). The victim's skull was so thick that the surgeons could not pull out the blade without wriggling it, and wriggling would tear his brain irreparably. The surgeons therefore sawed the man's skull around the blade, lifted bone and blade together, expected uneventful recovery...
Last week a new science was given a new name. Hydroponics, by its foremost U. S. practitioner, Dr. William Frederick Gericke of the University of California. Set out in row's at the University's plant experiment station in Berkeley are a number of shallow tanks made of wood, concrete, metal. From some of these tanks grow thick, towering clumps of tomato plants bearing rich red clusters of fruit. From other tanks and in an equal state of vigor grow potatoes, tobacco, gladioli, begonias. The roots of the plants are not in soil but in chemically treated water...
...sustenance from water. In 1699 a natural historian named John Woodward grew spearmint, potatoes and vetch in water from springs and rivers. First experiments which involved adding nutrient chemicals to the water are credited to a German named Knop (1859). Growing commercial crops in water is another matter. At Berkeley, Dr. Gericke aimed at producing tank crops which would economically compete with or surpass soil-grown crops. So successful was he that several California vegetable and flower growers have changed to water culture, more than a dozen branch experiment stations have been opened, and Dr. Gericke enjoys a "fan mail...
...Science last week Dr. Gericke discussed his choice of a name for practical water culture of plants. He had first favored the word "aquaculture," but a colleague pointed out that this term already designates the culture of aquatic plants and marine animals. The problem was solved by another Berkeley colleague, longtime Botany Professor William Albert Setchell. At his suggestion Dr. Gericke put together hydro from the Greek for water, and ponos, labor. He likes the word because it has "a strong economic and utilitarian connotation'' and also because of its kinship to "geoponics," the common medieval term...