Word: horticulturist
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...experimenting with water culture at isolated outposts such as Wake Island, later carried the experiments on at Ascension Island and Iwo Jima. In 1946, it started hydroponic installations for U.S. occupation forces in Japan, where tillable soil is scarce. The farms are run by a peppery, 58-year-old horticulturist named Kendrick Blodgett, who has been growing vegetables out of water and chemicals for 15 years...
...Last week an article in the Moscow magazine Culture and Life attacked dogmatism in science. It advocated a constant review of accepted scientific theses in the light of new knowledge and experience. It even slapped Soviet geneticists, i.e., Lysenko & Co., for following too obediently the doctrines of the late Horticulturist Ivan Michurin...
...Horticulturist. In Pittsburgh, the Post-Gazette ran a gloating letter from a cat hater who boasted of shooting cats and burying them in his garden for fertilizer: "Last year I had tomatoes as large as cantaloupes...
Henry Wallace, the Iowa horticulturist, emerged last week as the centerpiece of U.S. Communism's most authentic-looking fagade. The facade was Wallace's helter-skelter following, assembled under careful Communist supervision at a founding convention in Philadelphia and brazenly labeled the Progressive Party...
...Alps, where Author Stein and Companion Alice B. Toklas used to spend their summers. Many characters wander into the book and as casually wander out, never to be heard from again. Did the victim fall from a window on to the stone courtyard-or was she pushed? Perhaps "the horticulturist" knows. He sounds like a possible clue: "And now to tell and to tell very well very very well how the horticulturist family lived to tell everything, and they live in spite of everything, they live to tell everything...