Word: botanist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Return, Pocahontas. He did not even listen when George Bernard Shaw, watching him play in a children's charade, dubbed him a "born actor." Botany was his choice, but it failed to flourish in air that was positively humid with literary precipitations. All that survives today of Botanist Garnett is a pinheaded fungus named Discinella Minutissima Ramsbottom et Garnett...
Since 1945 MacNeish has poked into more than 300 caves. In 1949 he found in one of them a primitive corncob which he sent to Botanist Paul C. Mangelsdorf of Harvard. Dated by radioactive carbon, it proved to be more than 4,000 years old and cleared up several mysteries about the origin of corn. Urged and partially financed by Harvard to find even older corn, MacNeish returned last year to Tamaulipas...
...proposed transfer from the arboretum is the result of a report issued over a year ago by botanist Irving W. Bailey '07. The report stressed the need for centralizing Harvard's botanical collections. At the time, some people raised the objection that Arnold Arboretum was considered a trust administered by the Corporation, rather than an integral part of Harvard...
...fizz back in is effervescent Eric Hooper, 60. Trained as a botanist, Hooper "wandered about for a time," met Department Store Magnate Frederick James Marquis, now Lord Woolton, and went to work for him without knowing what business Woolton was in. "When I showed up and found it was a shop," says Hooper, "I was absolutely horrified...
...appears that the name was given to the herb by Joseph Pitton Tournefort [1575-1626], an eminent botanist of the pre-Linnaean era. Tournefort, it may be noted, studied medicine for two years; could it be that in Europe the qualities were known as well as they were to the Shoshone Indians...