Word: grant-in-aid
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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...Cornell (Ithaca, N. Y.). There are 23,000 primroses in the gardens, whose complete genealogical histories Professor George Harrison Shull sedulously registers. From those histories statisticans deduce laws of heredity which govern primroses, peas, pigs and people. The Japanese beetles were injuring the primroses. Professor Shull obtained a grant-in-aid from the National Research Council to buy some beetle poison...