Word: flora
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buzzards Bay, which was given for the purpose by the philanthropist, John Anderson, with an endowment of $50,000. Later it re- moved to the village of Woods Hole on the mainland. This was the first biological institution established on the edge of the sea for studying marine flora and fauna. But many have followed its lead, notably that of Prof. Yves Delage, in France. Dr. Agassiz's program was revolutionary, one of his rules being the complete prohibition of textbooks in favor of first-hand contact with living material. A sort of scientific communism formed the atmosphere...
Captain Robert A. Bartlett, who accompanied Peary to within 110 miles of the Pole, will spend three years in the Arctic, measuring air currents, charting the bottom of the sea, and gathering flora. His expedition is financed by an anonymous millionaire. Both Bartlett and MacMillan will carry complete radio equipment and will report their scientific findings thereby...
...with Viscount Bryce's articles, the reader has a perfectly definite idea of the peoples, of their languages and literatures, of their industries and habits of life, and of the countries in which they live. If the author discusses the geological formation of a certain mountain range or the flora of a valley, he uses scientific terms with as much naturalness as he employs exact epithets in describing a moonlit night in Tahiti...
...Chairman, R. L. Hobart, Barbara Bowes; G. Bowes, Kathryn Hobart; E. Hobart, Gertrude Wilder; W. Culver, Emma Wilder; H. Talbot, Margaret Shanks; L. Williams, Flora Williams; R. Underwood, Mazie Olsen; M. Wolcott Jr., Antoinette Meech...
...cauliflower ear, characteristic flora of the prize ring, is withering away. Careful inspection of the three champions now training to defend their titles within the month- Jack Dempsey against Tom Gibbons, Johnny Kilbane against Eugene Criqui, Jimmy Wilde against Pancho Villa-reveals that none show the effects of auricular horticulture. Further research into the personal appearances of the six other ring champions discloses only one cauliflower ear. It is attached to the head of Johnny Dundee. A cauliflower ear is the ridged, mushroom-like appendage that remains after years of unfriendly massage by the fists of opposing pugilists. Its modern...