Word: keys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...captain Betsy Fogarty, bucket guard, and high-scoring forward Tish Emerson, the Annex six were ahead 21 to 16 at the half. In the third period, forwards Miss Emerson, Nancy Morton, and Sandy Witt failed to score from outside the key. They made two out of three foul shots...
Defending such traditions as the high table and the wearing of academic robes to all classes, Laslett called these customs "the key to the strength of the English university system." By behaving "as if the social order hasn't changed, the British have kept the Welfare State from extinguishing the English university...
Usually assigned to cover a player taller than himself, Grayer stood out on defense, although he scored well in only two contests. His best shot, a line-drive jumper from around the key, was not overly effective, but should be better next year...
...Corn the Key. If any single event can be said to have touched off the farm revolution, it was the development of hybrid corn. It opened the eyes of farmers and scientists alike to the vast increase that could be made in food production. Following Mendelian genetic principles, Professor George Harrison Shull of the Carnegie Institution of Washington developed the first hybrid corn in 1908. This was more than mere crossing: by generations of inbreeding he got pure strains which when mated yielded an almost explosive yield increase given the name of "hybrid vigor." But Shull's work...
Genetic Freaks. Corn is a hybridizer's delight because its male part (the tassel) and its female part (the immature ear) are separate on the plant and can easily be hand pollinated. Most other crops have their male and female parts close together. The long-sought key to separation of the sexes in order to hybridize other commercial crops came accidentally with the discovery of patches of sorghum that had hereditary male sterility. From this seedsmen developed a hybrid. This year the U.S. is planting 8,000,000 acres to hybrid sorghum for feed-half the entire sorghum crop...