Word: findings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...botanical garden itself are represented all the tropical plants of economic importance. We test them out, determine which are best adopted to the Cuban climate, and try to find out if any could be transplanted successfully to other regions. In addition, we make constant exchanges with other similar establishments, notably that of the United Fruit Company in Honduras...
...most important tasks is to seek to improve the plants we find growing naturally in this region. There are thousands of varieties of sugar cane, for example: we see what conditions of soil and culture are most favorable to each. One which we have been developing, "Harvard 12029," is so successful that it is being planted in wide areas and bids fair to supplant the present species...
...three-week period of hard spring football practice does not find favor with Coach Jackson Cannell of Dartmouth, according to an address he delivered to the 90 Green aspirants who assembled to discuss the prospects for next fall's season...
...tenseness of plot situation. If sudden shrieks, queer lights, clutching hands, ghost voices and such phenomena thrill you, there is little doubt that "The Skull" will prove very satisfactory fare. But if you demand more of a mystery play, if you ask a cleverly worked plot you will find the play lacking...
...intelligence of Harvard, personified by the ten best scholars of that institution, remains undefeated and uncontested for at least another year. The Harvard authorities, after many attempts, have been unable to find a single European or American college which desires to compete for the prize, having sent invitations to Cambridge, Yale, and Princeton...