Word: funguses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...salary is now $10,000, and he may get a percentage of the gross take. *Microbiologists would prefer that laymen call each organism by its right name, but in the privacy of their own laboratories, they often call them all "bugs." *From the Greek for "white twisted fungus." *With nearly all microorganisms, a species is made up of many strains which may differ as much as a German shepherd differs from a Pekingese in the dog species. *Marketed by Parke, Davis & Co., which financed Burkholder's work, under the trade name Chloromycetin (pronounced Chloromy...
...gasoline generator gave them light, and drying facilities for their laboratory and clothes. Investigating the riot of fungus, lichens, molds, smuts and mildews that festooned the place, Beebe discovered Protozoa, Coelenterata, Platyhelminthes, Nemathelminthes, and Rotifera, and was certain of the existence of Mollusca, Oligochaeta, Hirundinea and Arthropoda...
...leaves, reported Department of Agriculture researchers at Beltsville, Md., also produced two antibiotics. One worked against Staphylococcus aureus, the germ that causes boils; the other against fungi that damage plants. In the skins and pulps of ripe bananas, there were two more: one worked against Tinea trychophytina, the fungus that causes athlete's foot, the other against the fungus that makes tomato plants wilt...
...Bartlett Tree Research Laboratories of Stamford, Conn, cautioned teenagers against carving initials on trees, explaining that fungus and insects used them as invasion points...
...science, says Dr. Wiener, has suddenly appeared. It deals with control mechanisms, and Dr. Wiener has personally named it "cybernetics" from a Greek word meaning "steersman." It is growing like a parasitic fungus, drawing on techniques already developed by other sciences, from mathematics to psychology...