Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Quiz the Scientist pays listeners $1 for every question used, receives on the average about 80 a week. Typical query last week: Does a heavy weight drop faster than a light one? Other queries: What makes grass green? What causes the rainbow? What makes the sky blue? Not entirely academic, Quiz the Scientist has included tips from Dr. Kelley for housewives. Not long ago, she told how to clean silverware by using a 10? pie plate made out of tin. By putting the tin plate in a larger aluminum pan and adding warm salt water and soda, the silverware...
...Please tell all our acquaintances that we are alive. In the word "alive," everything is said. After 22 days of an infernal journey, they brought us to the depths of Asia, the Kirghiz Steppes. There is no tree in view, nor even any grass anywhere. They have changed our station three times already, and we have now arrived here after two days' travel by ox cart...
...Ballet Theatre is not quite a U. S. grass-roots enterprise. But neither is it hog-tied to the St. Petersburg-Paris-Monte Carlo tradition, as Mr. Hurok's ballets are. Founded by scholarly Princetonian Richard Pleasant, secretary of the old Mordkin Ballet, the Ballet Theatre has had many backers including Dancer Lucia Chase, widow of President Thomas Ewing Jr. of big Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co. Among the ballerinas, best are Philadelphia-born Karen Konrad and beauteous 22-year-old Texan Nana Gollner...
Last week a photograph in Adolf Hitler's newspaper, Völkischer Beobachter, showed the clearing as it is today, with nothing but bare patches in the shriveled winter grass to indicate where the car, the hall, the granite blocks and the monument had stood...
...About 95% of the expenditure on agricultural research went toward increasing production; only 5% to discover new uses for agricultural products. While vitamins provided a $100,000,000 industry, the food values of seaweed were studied, and grass continued to develop as a health food...