Word: marsh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rochester, Minn., Dr. George Marsh Higgins, Mayo Foundation biologist, revealed a relation between the amount of red clover and the number of spinsters in a given district: "Old maids keep cats. Cats prey on mice. Mice eat bumble bees' nests. Bumble bees pollinate red clover blossoms. The more pollination the better the crop...
...exhibit, which lasts four weeks, includes works by John Carroll, Louis Eilshemius Howard Gibbs, Morris Kantor, Benjamin Kopman, Reginald Marsh, Henry Lee MacFee, Elliot Orr, and Mark Tobey. None of the works of these artists have been displayed before by the society...
...exhibition on the schedule of the society comprises the work of 12 contemporary American artists. The paintings, which have been loaned either by the artists themselves, or by the present owners, are representative of the following: John Carroll, Elahemius, Howard Gibbs, Morris Kantor, Benjamin Kapman, Henry Lee McFee, Reginald Marsh, and Mark Tobey, and others. The exhibition will be held during the weeks of Saturday, February 21, to Saturday, March 14. Over Monday, February 23, the galleries will be closed...
...upon the primacy of intellectual ideals and intellectual accomplishments." Many a university official agreed in principle with Dr. Butler, few with his proposal as it stood. Forthright in approval were Chancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown of New York University ("Would be glad to enter such a combination"); President Daniel L. Marsh of Boston University ("Full accord"); President William Wistar Comfort of Haverford College ("Perfectly evident"). Less sure of the scheme as it stood were Dean of Men Fraser Metzger of Rutgers University ("Dr. Butler's position . . . is well founded"); President Ernest Martin Hopkins of Dartmouth ("Certainly worth considering"); President Thomas...
...firedamp. It is 77.5% to 98.2% methane ("marsh gas"), mixed with almost negligibe quantities of other poisonous, highly inflammable gases. Its presence is usually detected by a pale, violet-blue "cap" above the miners' safety-lamps...