Word: grains
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...first founded, the U.S. has been the world's foremost innovator. Eli Whitney's cotton gin turned the South into a profitable agricultural kingdom that could rival the industrial North. Cyrus H. McCormick's reaper enabled farmers to transform the Great Plains into vast seas of grain and feed a growing nation. Canals and railroads made long-distance travel possible, while the telegraph and, later, the telephone made it unnecessary. Mass production-another 19th century American invention-turned out a plethora of consumer goods, from automobiles and radios to fiberglass boats, all of which helped make...
...congratulatory messages from Pasadena. Within seconds after touchdown, with almost unseemly haste, it will automatically point a camera down and take a picture of one of its foot pads and the surrounding soil. Scientists programmed this quick shot so that they could at the very least learn about grain sizes, erosion and other surface conditions near Viking's feet in the event that some catastrophe befalls the craft soon after the landing. Six minutes later, like a wary human set down on alien soil, Viking will look cautiously up from its foot and shoot a panoramic view...
Though Rosovsky says he does not want to push the educational clock back, his personal views of what a "proper" education is runs decidedly against the grain of liberalized reforms of the past decade. He has said he believes liberal education has been weakened because of the "exaggerated permissiveness" of recent years. And because the task forces he has set up to review undergraduate curriculum and life take their cues from him--he denies this although everyone involved sees the entire review as his brainchild--their recommendations will undoubtedly reflect a desire to tighten up the educational system...
Pound praised II Duce in his book of 1935, Jefferson and/or Mussolini, for all of the usual things: "grano, bonifica, restauri, grain, swampdrainage, restorations, new buildings..." But clearly he was as much as anything else, carried away by his own rhetoric. In the same tome he called Mussolini an "OPPORTUNIST who is RIGHT," an "AWARE INTELLIGENCE," who was introducing "a new LANGUAGE in the debates in the chamber." He was according to Pound, a statesman of "deep 'concern' or will for the welfare of Italy," right down to "the last ploughman and the last girl in the oliveyards...." It seems...
...infect" other species of plants with rhizobia. Scientists in England have isolated the segment of the rhizobial DNA that controls the nitrogen-fixing capability. Now they and other scientists are trying to incorporate this gene into the genetic material of plants like corn. These and other efforts to give grain plants the capability of nitrogen fixation could, if successful, increase the yield of plants and reduce the need for chemical fertilizers. Nitrogen fertilizers require large quantities of natural gas and petroleum to produce...