Word: cactuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whitman designed her bright colors in elaborate motifs, gave each motif a name. Examples: a yellow ticker tape tangled with prancing red devils, called "Ticker Tape"; a naked urchin facing a dark-green background of cactus, called "Cactus Also Needs Water." (There are also a few less discreet themes which have to be kept under the vest in polite company.) For snob appeal, Mrs. Whitman printed only 30 dozen of each design, with her crested monogram on each...
...acres of the Atkins Foundation include a palm garden, marsh plants, cactus garden, orchids, bamboo and over 9,000 species of other plants. Roads, paths, bridges and dams on the stream flowing through the area have been constructed. Dr. Kevorkin and his superintendent are the only Americans now working at Soledad; the rest of the employees are Cubans. The Atkins Foundation was the first to introduce teak to Cuba and has succeeded in producing better strains of sugar cane through selection and breeding. A terrific hurricane in 1935 wreaked great damage to the trees in the Soledad Gardens but foresight...
Thorn of the Cactus. Between World Wars I & II, Palestine's population grew apace-the Jews largely by immigration, the Arabs by propagation. Arabs now number over one million, twice the 1922 figure; the Palestinian Jews number over half a million. The springs of Jewish colonizing vigor, amply fed by the money of world Jewry, flowed out on to the desert. U.S. Jews have contributed almost $100 million to Palestine, invested $50 million more. The "hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land," which Mark Twain saw in 1867, was dotted with green fields and citrus groves...
...memories. . . They had no ancient curse upon them and no hysterical hopes; they had the peasant's love for the land, the schoolboy's patriotism, the self-righteousness of a very young nation. They were Sabras-nicknamed after the thorny, rather tasteless fruit of the cactus, grown on arid earth, tough, hard-living, scant...
Bacteria multiply so fast that they can pack into a few hours or days the equivalent of thousands of generations of the higher forms of life. As the walrus has adapted itself to the Arctic and the cactus to the desert, the bacteria seem to adapt themselves quickly when exposed to the initially hostile environment created by the new drugs. In the last few months, bacteriologists have bred strains of pneumococci, streptococci and other common germs which are practically immune to the sulfa drugs, penicillin...