Word: carbonized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural and laboratory atmospheres, the institute men study how and why plants thrive or fail. Thus Dr. Crocker, as the seed specialist, discovered that most seeds sprout quickly if they are kept dry and cold between harvest and planting, knowledge which benefits farmers incalculably. Other information is that extra carbon dioxide, such as can be washed out of factory coal smoke, speeds up the growth of the plants...
...because the owners of fighting cocks were fined $10 each; not because the contesting birds were automatically condemned to death in accordance with a proviso in the state law. They claimed that it was useless and cruel to kill the gamecocks by placing them in chambers filled with carbon monoxide gas, making them unfit to eat; that since gamecocks are carefully fed, housed and usually young, it would be kinder to wring their necks and donate the carcasses to the poor...
...Since archaic times man has known and used carbon, sulfur, gold and silver. He first used copper in Egypt about 4000 B. C. About 3500 B. C. he found iron, and, somewhat later, lead. The Chaldaeans used tin 3500 years...
Photographers last week prepared to take huge, detailed pictures of Michelangelo's magnificent paintings in Rome's Sistine Chapel. Reason: the Michelangelos must be treated for chemical decay in the paint, damp air and dust effects, carbon deposits from the smoke of holy candles. The photographs will be used to check the restorative process...
...taxes; its uniformed agents have police powers and carry 38 Colt revolvers, possess summons books and can prosecute offenders in magistrate court. Their duties include the collecting of stray dogs who are then penned together in metal and concrete pens and given a killing dose of carbon dioxide gas if after 48 hours they are unclaimed or deemed unfit to be given away. A. S. P. C. A. agents, aided by state police, last week broke up a cock fight at Goshen, N. Y., arrested 125 men, rescued 49 cocks. Its revenue is derived from members' dues and donations...