Word: crockers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
William Boyce Thompson, copper millionaire and flora expert, was goodhumoredly sunning himself last week aboard his yacht off Miami. Less active than he used to be, he was pleased to learn that the balmy weather around Yonkers, N. Y., was enabling Director William Crocker of the Boyce Thompson Institute for plant research to start spending $3,000,000 which Col. Thompson gave him last year for a 400-acre arboretum adjoining the institute...
...institute, with 40 scientists whose various temperaments Dr. Crocker must coddle, is the most thoroughly equipped in the world to study plant life. Outdoors and indoors, under sunlight and artificial light, in 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...
...week it met the convenience of several able U. S. players, all eager to be the champion of Canada. A player from South Orange, N. J.-Gilbert Hall-was the defending Canadian champion, but Fritz Mercur of Harrisburg, Pa., seventh in the U. S. ranking, put him out. Willard Crocker, Marcel Rainville, Charles Leslie, Brian Doherty, Canadians all, were in the quarterfinals. None of them got in the semifinals. The finals, as everyone expected, were between Mercur and George Lott. Mercur took the first set from Lott, who starts slowly. With a set apiece, dark-haired, straight-featured Mercur forced...