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...founding of Harvard's Botanical Museum, now a part of Agassiz, when Professor George L. Goodale was searching for a practical means of including a collection of plant life in the new museum. Dried plants were out of the question, and wax copies were too crude. At the Comparative Zoology Museum he saw several small glass reproductions of jellyfish and conceived the idea of modelling flowers in glass. The same year he hurried to Germany to present his plans to Leopold Blaschka, creator of the marine life done in glass...
...German ties"; and that with campaign "failure imminent . . . Republicans in despair might resort to a big adventure." The "adventure," it said, might well be a fake last-minute assassination plot against Dewey, with the Communists, of course, blamed for it. Thundered Izvestia: "History includes a number of such insolent, crude provocations on the eve of parliamentary elections in democratic countries, up to the burning of the Reichstag in Germany...
These were staples of prewar Mediterranean imports. Red squill, a plant that resembles the onion, is dried and processed into rat poison. Argols, scales that form on the lining of old wine vats, are a crude form of potassium bitartrate. Bergamot oils are used in perfumes and soaps...
...There," said Tom Dewey, "in crude, unblushing words, is the ultimate expression of New Deal politics by the theory of 'who gets what, when...
...that of hot-tempered Major Augustus Parkington (Walter Pidgeon). The Major built it as an anniversary present for his wife Susie (Greer Garson), the pretty little boardinghouse keeper from Leaping Rock, Nevada, and to open it planned the most elaborate ball of the season. But the Major was a crude fellow in the eyes of his neighbors and, when the night of the ball arrived, the Four Hundred cut him dead. Furious at the insult to his wife, the Major proceeded to ruin the remiss millionaires, one by one. When Susie discovered that one of them had resorted to suicide...