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Word: easiest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metasequoia is easy to grow and propagation from cuttings is child's play. Merrill claims that "anyone who can root geranium cuttings can raise Metasequoias." One professor ran some branches through an ordinary meet-grinder and found a very high percentage of them took root. "It is the easiest cornifer to propagate by soft or hardwood cuttings," according to Merrill...

Author: By David C. D. rogers, | Title: Professors Squabble Over Seeds From China's Living Fossil Trees | 10/9/1952 | See Source »

...other hand, Busch's book has pictures, droves of them. Better still, it includes 118 pages devoted to Stevenson's own utterances, whose content and style are as praiseworthy as Busch's are not. The easiest answer--and if you are going to read up on the Democratic candidate the best as well--is to buy both...

Author: By Samuel B. Potter, | Title: The Bookshelf | 9/26/1952 | See Source »

...amino-acid building blocks, the other 30. Then by other methods (e.g., hydrolysis), he broke the two parts down until he had fragments that contained only a few amino acids each. These were compounds familiar to biochemists. Sanger identified them by paper chromatography,† and the first and easiest part of his job was done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Protein Puzzle | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

...between Captain Christopher Jones (Spencer Tracy) and the seductive Mrs. Dorothy Bradford (Gene Tierney). wife of the colony's Governor-to-be William Bradford. By the time the ship drops anchor in Plymouth Harbor, Dorothy and the captain have done a little light romancing and she takes the easiest way out of the triangle by drowning herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fun Aboard the Mayflower | 6/9/1952 | See Source »

Melodrama is doing for movies today what it did for theatres at the century's turn -- saving them. When writers get lost in the cliches of their trade, and find it easiest to guide well-known characters through well-known roles, then producers give their writers an extended vacation and dig into their files under...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: The Atomic City | 5/29/1952 | See Source »

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