Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naphthalene acetic acid and naphthalene acetamide are two of the "growth substances" or hormone-like chemicals, which growers now use to stimulate root-sprouting, accelerate pollen production, etc. etc. Dr. Frank Easter Gardner and his co-workers at the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry station in Beltsville, Md. decided to try these two naphthalene compounds as a spray to keep ripening apples from dropping. They sprayed ten varieties of apple trees just before crop maturity, were signally successful in preventing premature falls. In Science last week they reported that in tests on one troublesome variety ("Williams Early Red") only...
...honors for tall, personable, athletic Kenneth Clark, and publication of the catalogue made him in due time the foremost modern authority on Leonardo da Vinci. Fortnight ago in London and Manhattan appeared the full harvest gathered from Subaltern Clark's wide province: a fresh appraisal of Leonardo* and his growth as an artist, based on evidence uncovered in the drawings. As truly as the new Madonna in Milan, it constitutes a rediscovery of Leonardo...
...topmost squeaks of the piccolo to the profoundest groans of the bass tuba. Morose manufacturers adopted the new gadgets in the middle 20s. Electrical recording failed to set the industry on the road to recovery. But it did lay a firmer foundation for the Industry's future growth. It remade a mechanical stunt into a musical instrument...
Then King Carol moved to Tashaul to lay the cornerstone of its dike, while the Rumanian Navy proudly publicized figures on its growth: two more submarines to be launched in October; three more gunboats arriving that same month from Great Britain, as well as two new units from Italy, bringing the Rumanian Navy to four destroyers, nine gunboats, three submarines, a fine Danube River flotilla. Tashaul, to be completed by 1941, will be 30 times as big as Constantsa, Rumania's biggest port, will be defended by heavy artillery purchased from Germany, will have both a naval and commercial...
Balkan term for Yugoslavia's long-deferred, long-discussed accord between the Serbian majority and the Croat minority is sporazum. Last week sporazum dramatically demonstrated how much Europe's tension had accelerated the growth of Balkan nationalism despite external pressure, internal dissension. In post-War Yugoslav history the sporazum was blocked by determination of 7,500,000 Serbs (Serbian Eastern Orthodox) not to share Yugoslavia's rule with 4,500,000 Croats (Roman Catholic), and the tenacity of Croatian struggles, the ruthlessness of Serbian repression, gave Croats the reputation of being one of the worst-treated minorities...