Word: heals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That plants have "emotions," "heart beats," feel pain, were theories of the late Hindu Botanist Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose. Every gardener knows that "wounded" plants heal themselves with mysterious juices. Last summer, Chemist James English Jr. and James Frederick Bonner, working at the California Institute of Technology with famed Dutch Plantman Aire Jan Haagen-Smit, announced that they had solved the mystery of that healing juice. In a kitchen-simple experiment, they butchered a batch of fresh Kentucky Wonder string beans, dribbled the hormone-rich juice into the pod-linings of other wounded beans. In a few hours, large clumps...
...want to be courteous to me, won't you, when you go to bed at night, just say a prayer for me, as I go forth as a good Christian soldier to heal our wounds...
...refuse even a discussion of these problems as so far it has done with its too-often reiterated and perhaps categoric 'Nevers.' But will it not regret if the breach presently dividing the two nations becomes so wide that it will be difficult, if not impossible, to heal...
...claims 35,000, concedes that no more than 3,000 can pay dues at any one time. To figures like these, and to troubles like S. T. F. U.'s, A. F. of L. points as evidence that C. I. 0. should grow up and heal its sores before it tries to make peace on its own terms...
...Suspicious signs of cancer: all lumps in the body; any irregular or abnormal discharge of fluid or blood from any body opening; any sore which does not heal in two weeks; small tender spots on the lips and tongue of smokers; loss of appetite and indigestion; persistent hoarseness not caused by a cold; moles, warts and wens. Every person has an average of 27 small blemishes on his body, says Dr. Little. At middle age these "small centers of overgrowth of tissue" may start to grow again and become tender. Prompt treatment prevents them from becoming cancerous...