Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oakleigh Thome to see what his Eastern Aberdeen Anguses would do this year. Daily from Saturday to Saturday 35,000 visitors swarmed up & down the Temple's broad cement ramps, past rows & rows of freshly curried swine, sheep, steers, beef cows, rows & rows of the cream of the corn crops, prime kernels of wheat, oats. rye, barley...
Living for twenty-day periods on a rigid diet of canned food and corn sugar (dextrose), Dr. Talbott will make a study of the mineral balance of the body at various high attitudes. During these twenty-day periods, Dr. Talbott's menu will be exactly the same every day and the quantity will remain the same every day. If he gets hungry after eating the allotted canned gods he will eat more dextrose. The canned foods will include a wide assortment of meats, fruits, vegetables, cereals, and soups, as well as sea biscuits, powered milk, coffee, tea, sugar and chocolate...
...husky corn-fed Texan named Anderson Baten retired to his Dallas cottage, opened the first volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and began reading about "AABENRAA, a town of Denmark." Two years later, without having skipped a word between, he came to "ZYGOTE, the biological term for the fertilized egg," closed the last volume, went prayerfully to bed. Next morning he arose at 6 a. m., took a five-mile walk with his wife. After breakfast he sat down at his desk in the centre of a horseshoe of book-stacked tables. When Anderson Baten left his study sometime between...
Determination and scholarship are bred in the Baten stock. Anderson's greatgrandfather was hard-driving Colonel Ephraim Williams who founded Williams College. His father was president of struggling little Howard Payne College at Brownwood. Tex. But Anderson Baten describes himself as simply "a corn-fed country boy from Texas who doesn't know whether he's coming or going." His youthful ambition was to be a champion weightlifter. When he was 23 he performed the terrific feat of raising a 250-lb. dumbbell above his head. Satisfied with that, he turned to literature. Before he started reading...
...Rothemund concluded that this was the process of photosynthesis and chlorophyll genesis after he raised an acre of colorless corn in the pitch-dark cellar of the big laboratory building which Antioch College built with Mr. Kettering's money. The extract of white corn leaves turned green when Dr. Rothemund put it in jars of carbon dioxide...