Word: botanist
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...trying style after style even within a single year of production. His first plate was done in 1886, when he was only 26, and shows an amazing early technical mastery. By the end of that year, Ensor had ranged in motif from a fine-line portrait of the Swedish botanist Frise to a haggard, almost Hogarthian satire on historical painting in the grand manner, entitled Iston, Pouffamatus, Cracozie and Transmouff, Celebrated Persian Physicians, Examining the Stools of King Darius after the Battle of Arbela. In it, the learned doctors peer into the royal chamber pot for omens...
...botanist, Sir Eric conducted research on hybrid vigor, plant ecology, and the growth and nutrition of duck weed. After the war, he wrote a series of papers on the growth of leaves...
...Ordered Universe. In the postwar technological explosion, scientists have seen trusted "laws of nature" replaced by subtler hypotheses, discovered that the more they know, the more remains to be learned. "Scientists are not as cocksure as they used to be," says Botanist Edmund Sinnott. former dean of Yale's Graduate School. They have come to show greater respect for the kind of questions that religion-although not necessarily the Christian church-asks. "Most of the scientists I know," says Boston University Theologian Edwin Booth, "believe in the immanent principle of life in the organic universe. If they are religious...
...case of a fragile item, with a dental extractor--and tossed into a basket with three compartments: for bones, for flint, and for river stones and pebbles. The stones go to a geologist, the bones to a paleontologist, and the flint to an archaeologist. The pale botanist takes a sample of dirt from eastrata, which he centrifuges to recover the pollen grains of plants which grad around the rock shelter thousands years...
...Beta Kappa chapter, a good library, an endowment of $7,000,000. Atlanta's Morehouse is a highly selective producer of Negro leaders; its President Benjamin Mays is perhaps the best-known Negro educator in the U.S. Not far behind these three are Alabama's Tuskegee, where Botanist George Washington Carver did his work, and Virginia's Hampton Institute, the nation's most richly endowed ($19 million) private Negro college...