Word: ferns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage was the brilliantly lit, richly appointed state dining room. Tuxedoed Secret Service men stood on guard, colored waiters came & went, a homely beer barrel was cunningly concealed in a feathery bank of fern. (Cheese & crackers went with the beer.) At the room's south entrance the President sat in a big red leather chair, the famed ivory cigaret holder tilted audaciously, the famed charm sparkling and bubbling like champagne. So seductively supercharged was the Roosevelt manner that it shocked one of his guests to a state of real alarm. Said Nebraska's dapper freshman Senator Kenneth...
...Dubey, W. B. '46, Lowell J-31 TRO 5984 E Elliott, F. W. '46, Leverett A-33 TRO 4222 Ellis, S. J. '46, Eliot G--43 ELI 2197 Ellher, J. H. '45, Lowell H-13 TRO 9687 Ente, H. K. '46, Eliot H-34 TRO 3896 F Fern, B. H. '46, Eliot H-34 TRO 3896 Field, M. G. '45, Dunster K-32 ELI 2373 Ferguson, P. '46, Kirkland M-42 KIR 1641 Fishman, F. N. '46, Lowell J-31 TRO 5984 Fossa, P. '46, Adams D-33 KIR 8797 Frank, T. '44, Dunster F-41 TRO 8327 Freedman...
...climax of its long drift toward rupture with the Axis. Dr. Morales had conferred with the U.S., had spent three days consulting Chile's neighbor Government, Argentina, its last partner in neutrality. Now he would tell the Cabinet what he had learned. Then Foreign Minister Joaquín Fernández Fernández would report to the Chilean Senate, asking advice on future foreign policy. Finally a choice, so long deferred, would be made: either neutrality apart from the United Nations, or a diplomatic break with the Axis...
...ITCHING PARROT-Jose Joaquín Fernández de Lizárdi-translation & introduction by Katherine Anne Porter -Doubleday, Doran...
...rays produce their changes not by affecting the chromosomes, but rather the chloroplasts themselves. Reason: chloroplasts are passed on directly from parent plant to its offspring through the seed or spore instead of arising anew in each generation under the genetic influence of the chromosomes. Knudson worked with fern spores, because they are simple and sexlessly reproductive...