Word: earth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tomatoes, lettuce, spinach, corn, sugar beets, asters, dahlias et al. was found by Dr. Louis Otto Kunkel to be carried from plant to plant by a small insect called the leafhopper. Dr. Kunkel also discovered that the leafhopper very rarely flew more than three or four feet above the earth. Obvious leafhopper foil: a 4-ft. screen fence. In early autumn a plot of asters thus protected was only 20% diseased whereas 80% of the flowers just outside the fence were damaged. Last week Dr. Kunkel, now on the Rockefeller Institute staff, reported to a meeting of bacteriologists, pathologists...
...That the dark side of the crescent moon is faintly visible to man is due to light from the sun which reaches Earth and is reflected back to the moon. By spectroscopic analysis of this "earthshine" and by inferring additional details from the known phenomena of optics, astronomers can form a plausible idea of how Earth looks from other planets. Last week Director Vesto Melvin Slipher of Lowell Observatory (Flagstaff, Ariz.) told how Earth must look to Mars. The Martian astronomer sees a planet bluer than Venus and bigger. If he looks sharp he can see the polar caps shrinking...
...Dickens and a generation after him slept heading toward the north because they thought that they might suffer harm while lying criss-cross to the earth's magnetic field. To insulate themselves from that imagined magnetic effect people stood their beds on glass, "nonconducting" casters...
...Foolish Ones, Author Carroll bothers her readers with no more political implications than she did in As the Earth Turns, but both these novels might be taken as regretful commentaries on New England's changing folkways. Author Carroll's sympathies are conservative; the "few foolish ones" of her title refer to the dwindling minority who remain stubbornly loyal to the old U. S. traditions. She compares them to birds whose love of home overcomes their fear of winter. Like As the Earth Turns, A Few Foolish Ones is a quiet and well-told tale of the second rank...
DAUGHTERS of EARTH - Agnes Smedley-Coward-McCann ($2). Revised reprint (first published 1929) of the novelized autobiography of a U. S. revolutionist. The book had small sales in the U. S., tremendous sales in other countries...