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Word: forli (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Out to Metairie with a photographer went Meigs Frost. They crawled through weeds and bushes on a neighboring lot, snapped pictures of a university truck delivering millwork. The house was for a close friend of Governor Richard Webster Leche. Two days later, after poring over deeds and checking facts, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Contemptuous Item | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

With Louisiana in an uproar and Federal investigators hastening down from Washington, the Item abandoned Huey's followers to their fate. Suddenly the Item came out with an editorial platform calling for punishment of "all who have stolen from State and Federal Governments," rigid State economy, honest elections. Next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Contemptuous Item | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Dr. George Harrison Shull, professor of botany and genetics at Princeton University, gave hybrid corn to the world free of charge. But the U. S. Department of Agriculture pointed out last week-just for fun-that if old Dr. Shull had received a royalty of only 1? an acre for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Santa Claus's Corn | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

Hybrid corn is the result of inbreeding various strains for several generations, then crossbreeding. Corn, like mice, mackerel and men, reproduces by means of male sperm and female eggs. The sperm is produced and dispersed from the tassels at the top of the stalk; the eggs lurk at the base...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Santa Claus's Corn | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

In 1905, only five years after Mendel's heredity laws were rediscovered, Dr. Shull (who was then at the Carnegie Institution's station on Long Island) and the late Dr. Edward Murray East (at the Connecticut Agricultural Experimental Station) started their experiments with corn hybridization. The Department of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Santa Claus's Corn | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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