Word: dormant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Lager's next great discovery was a pure fluke. In 1908 he sent a crate of 1,000 dormant,unpotted orchid plants from Colombia to his greenhouses in New Jersey. Since they were not in flower, there was no way of telling more than that they were Cattleya Gigas, a fairly common orchid family. Of the 1,000, about half were sold in small quantities to other nurserymen just as they left the crate. The rest Mr. Lager potted, put in the greenhouse. In 1910 one plant suddenly bloomed pure white. No pure white Cattleya Gigas has ever...
...most popular books includes workes of Morley, Lippmann, Cabell, Barrie, Coward, Wharton, and Virginia Woolf. A marked predilection for Shaw, both his established plays and his latest tale frequently leaving the shelves. Appreciation of the poetry of Millay, Wylie, Pound, and Eliot is hardly indicative of a dormant interest in literature. W. Robin Taylor '36. Francis J. Whitfield...
...there is every reason to believe that a nationalization of education would effect the necessary financial regulation. Further, a single controlling department would provide uniformity of education and effectively stamp out remaining evidences of American illiteracy. To force a change, however, would require, first, the marshalling of a dormant public opinion into an effective force for action, and, second, the determination of a non-politic department in the federal organ...
...With his eye cocked impatiently on the League of Nations' dormant Disarmament Conference President Hoover last week told the country: "Our people have ever been lovers of peace. . . . This Administration has spared no effort to bring about a reduction in arms. . . . These efforts are making progress. If these efforts finally fail we shall be compelled to build our Navy to the full strength, equal to that of the most powerful in the world...
...rate, according to the college chroniclers, the new era began in 1910 when Fred H. Harris of Brattleboro, Vermont, the first proficient ski runner and ski jumper to enter Dartmouth, awakened and organized those outdoor instincts which had been dormant so long. A gathering of some twenty-five students and a few faculty men discussed ways and means for getting the college out of doors in winter; and a public meeting shortly afterwards, gave birth to the Dartmouth Outing Club, with 50 or 60 enthusiastic members. On successive Saturdays this primeval flock of snowshoera waddled noisily forth from the campus...