Word: experimentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"I don't waste any thoughts on the future," she says. "I don't plan for it." Sister Sadie is 98, the oldest living member of the sect; there are only about 50 left. For within the Shaker fold, as in the Kingdom of Heaven, there is no...
"Fleshed Off." As the 19th Century drew to a close, the Shakers made few converts. The journals kept by each "family" began to record more & more cases of individuals (and couples) who "wormed out" or "fleshed off" to taste the pleasures of the world. Sister Sadie Neale and the handful...
...discovery was made by Kenneth V. Thimann, Professor of plant physiology, after months of experimentation at the Atkins Institute in Soledad, Cienfuegos, Cuba. The weed apparently eliminated by the experiment is the Aroma marabu weed, which had overgrown large acreages of sugar land on the island and is also a problem to cattle raisers in the region...
Just when the experiments will be undertaken is a military secret. A V-2 rocket was fired toward space from White Sands, N.M. last December, but the experiment failed.
The Ford Motor Co. last week ended a three-year-old experiment with a foreman's union. The experiment, said Ford, had "failed hopelessly." The company withdrew its recognition of the independent Foreman's Association of America, whose six-week strike against Ford had hardly put a nick...