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Word: latters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Julius von Sachs, a brilliant German who reasoned that roots and flowers must be produced by special chemical substances, root-forming and flower-forming, elaborated in plant tissue. The foundations of the science were laid about 1910 by Fitting of Germany, and by Boysen Jensen of Denmark. The latter cut off the tip of the leafsheaves in young oats. This stopped the stalk from bending toward light. When Boysen Jensen glued the tip back on, the stalk started bending again, although only the tip was exposed to light. This indicated that some light-sensitive something was dribbling down into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Plant Hormones | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

Messrs. Tone and Tracy are strong champions of the one woman man theory, and Miss George, as a nurse, is the object of Mr. Tracy's affections until the latter is reported killed where-upon she nurses Mr. Tone to health and on the rebound promises to marry him. Inopportunely Mr. Tracy reappears but knowing the respect Mr. Tone has for him refuses to cut in on his pal's happiness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Moviegoer | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

...Puritans Joe Peden and "Little Joe" Hindle carried the mail, with the latter's third period collin cornor kick having a lot to do with halting any Dudley march before it could organize. In the Winthrop line, Charley Moore and "Blubber" Peters bore the brunt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ELIOT, WINTHROP WIN HOUSE FOOTBALL TILTS | 10/9/1937 | See Source »

Grace Moore and Jeanette MacDonald sing very prettily, but give the Moviegoor Deanna Durbin every time after the latter's performance in "100 Men and a Girl." Frome one who suffers from a definite aversion to child prodigies in any form, it is definitely disconcorting to have to award the palm to a fourteen year old warbler of the most unsophisticated type...

Author: By V. F., | Title: The Moviegoer | 10/9/1937 | See Source »

...final six points were run up in the second quarter of the game, when, after a long march which was featured by the running of left halfback Conroy and fullback Piper, the latter carried over from the three-yard stripo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House News | 10/8/1937 | See Source »

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