Word: eras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...business of growing plants in water is centuries old. Long before the Christian era it was believed that plants got all their sustenance from water. In 1699 a natural historian named John Woodward grew spearmint, potatoes and vetch in water from springs and rivers. First experiments which involved adding nutrient chemicals to the water are credited to a German named Knop (1859). Growing commercial crops in water is another matter. At Berkeley, Dr. Gericke aimed at producing tank crops which would economically compete with or surpass soil-grown crops. So successful was he that several California vegetable and flower growers...
Herbert George Wells has been seeing things for years, and telling about them at such length and with such irrepressible enthusiasm that now, at 70, he is well known as Civilization's Journalist No. 1. Back in the protozoic slime of the Victorian Era he first saw his vision of Civilization Triumphant, and in his fashion has been faithful to it ever since. Numerous, in^nious have been his variations on this theme. Last week his 78th book added one more minor version. Used to fat books from Author Wells, readers were surprised at the slimness of The Croquet...
...past year. Mr. J. O. Brew and his expedition, in north central Arizona, found clues throwing light on the history of the Hopi Indians of the Southwest. The present program in this area will, if successful, present a connected picture of the region from the early Christian era to the burning of Awatovi, the ruin now being excavated, in 1700. Into Honduras, near the Maya empire, Harvard and the Smithsonian Institute sent a party which has discovered pottery from Lake Yojoa...
...Federal help was necessary under the stress of unprecedented economic disturbance," stated John G. Winant, National Chairman of the Social Security Board to a member of the H-Y-P Conference Committee, as he enthusiastically pronounced the Social Security Act the era's most important legislation in its field...
...era of U. S. music seemed at an end last April when little old Arturo Toscanini left the New York Philharmonic and went home to Italy (TIME, May 11). The most beloved conductor living, he had worked with the Philharmonic for eleven seasons, taught it to play as perfectly as any orchestra in the world. But, at 69, Toscanini found continuous performances too great a strain. Thereafter he planned to conduct only occasionally, only in Europe...