Word: frederick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a new science was given a new name. Hydroponics, by its foremost U. S. practitioner, Dr. William Frederick Gericke of the University of California. Set out in row's at the University's plant experiment station in Berkeley are a number of shallow tanks made of wood, concrete, metal. From some of these tanks grow thick, towering clumps of tomato plants bearing rich red clusters of fruit. From other tanks and in an equal state of vigor grow potatoes, tobacco, gladioli, begonias. The roots of the plants are not in soil but in chemically treated water...
...William Frederick Gericke was born on a Nebraska farm, educated at Ohio State, Johns Hopkins, California. He is tall, stoop-shouldered, sparse-haired, 51. When newshawks ask him whether he expects to make a lot of money out of hydroponics, he just smiles, shows two gold teeth...
...Church. Methodists may make themselves responsible for the monthly $1 or club together on a unit. The Church expects its 5,000,000 members thus to contribute $1,000,000 a month for the next year. Since its launching last November the Movement has been directed by retired Bishop Frederick Thomas Keeney of Chicago. Methodist income for world service has dipped from $8,000,000 in 1925 to $3,000,000 in 1935 but busy Bishop Keeney hopes to enable the Church to budget $12,000,000 in 1940. Last week Bishop Keeney was well satisfied with efforts to date...
...advisors the students have secured the services of Archibald MacLeish '17; Robert S. Hillyer '17, associate professor of English; F. O. Matthiessen, associate professor in English and History; Theodore Spencer associate professor in English; Kenneth B. Murdock '16, professor of English; J. Tucker Murray '99, professor of English; Frederick C. Packard '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking; Percy Mackaye, dramatist; and Dudley Pitts, dramatist and translator...
...Coach Mitchell's prospective regulars are ready for work with the exception of the Sophomore basketball trio of R. Richard Grondahi, Frederick W. Heckel, and Ulysses J. Lupien...