Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weeks the chosen wheat of California saw the light of twelve argon-filled lamps, 300-candlepower each. Touched by no sun's ray, rooted in no soil, the wheat grew and flourished, drawing sustenance from jars of water in which the necessary chemical elements were dissolved. Although sun was excluded from the green house, the sun rays which contribute to plant growth were present in the electric light rays...
Last week Professor Alva Raymond Davis of the division of agricultural chemistry and Professor Dennis Robert Hoagland of the division of plant nutrition, University of California, pronounced the wheat mature. Not only mature, but superior in every way to its more conservative cousins which had spent five months growing in the old-fashioned way. Many have been the experiments in speeding up the growth of wheat, but never has the crop been of such quality, the time so short. The professors give the credit to the length of the light period. The lights were turned on for the most part...
...those cosmically-minded individuals who are concerned about the wasting away of the sun (TIME, March 19), comes a message of hope. Last week, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, president of the California Institute of Technology, told his institute associates that this was a continuously evolving world, rather than a steadily disintegrating...
...Joseph Mayott of California lost 6 inches in height in 6 years...
...hard for John Charles Fremont, adventurer (TIME, March 12), to realize that Kit was a devil incarnate in an Indian fight. Fremont, generous, press-agented the unassuming Kit, who helped him capture territory from the Mexicans and make California a part of the U. S. As a lieutenant, Kit took part in Fremont's quarrel with General Kearney in the California conquest. The U. S. Government was unwilling to confirm Kit's commission; and thus his two years' service to his country under Fremont went unpaid and unrecognized. Kit regarded the Army as an unmixed curse...