Word: giganteus
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...hundred fifty fans watched the first running of the Giganteus Stakes. The contestants, all 3-in.-long tropical species, sped along the track. In a photo finish, Hot to Trot II won the cup by a labrum...
...Soviet Union's 46-year-old Luther Burbank, had produced a new annual wheat yielding 144 bushels an acre, quadrupling the best previous yield in the Moscow latitude. He had also got the first live seeds from attempts to cross wheat and rye with a desert plant (Elymus giganteus), which may make it possible to grow those grains almost anywhere, thus opening to cultivation 150,000,000 acres of hitherto untillable Soviet land. The biggest news, however, was this: Nikolay Tsitsin appeared on the verge of perfecting a perennial, self-sowing wheat-the dream of farmers all over...
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