Word: fungi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Falling Walls. Van Erp, alas, reconstructed the temple on filled land. Even before he was finished, walls began to tilt. Fungi, salt and moss set in, and in the 1950s archaeologists found that water seeping down through the temple was threatening its very foundation. Pleas for funds went out, but Borobudur once again fell victim, this time to political upheavals...
Against the day when 6-105 and other thriving strains fall victim to new mutants of rust, Wahl is already working with Israeli Geneticist Daniel Zohary to breed fungi-resistant grain strains that will, like plasma in a blood bank, be immediately available for sowing in areas hard-hit by rust epidemics. They have already found new wheat and barley strains that are apparently resistant to rust. Says Wahl: "We must build up a bank rich in strains so that we are never again caught by a scavenger like...
...such an expensive enamel that she can only afford to wash her face once a fortnight." Prime Minister William Gladstone was "a vain old bird ... I never saw a person so creased . . . that old goose." The Journal breaks off, with Beatrix earnestly pursuing the classification and painting of fungi, three years before the publication of Peter Rabbit. Looking back in later years, she remembered him unsentimentally: "At one time I almost loathed Peter Rabbit, I was so sick of him." She is probably the only one who ever...
...might have been expected, Payne's screened piglets fared much better than the unscreened. After bloating and then dehydrating for two weeks, they became mummified and showed little evidence of change for about two months. After 100 days, they began to disintegrate under the attack of bacteria and fungi...
Just about everyone and, inevitably, his brother has had athlete's foot. The various fungi which masquerade under that name annually infect an estimated 40 million people in the U.S., 2,000,000 of them badly enough to send them sprinting to a doctor. But until recently, doctors could recommend little more than the various medications available without prescription on drugstore counters. And those assorted fungistatics (fungus retarders), whether liquid, powder or ointment, often did no better than...