Word: oakes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Citroën. He summers in the Périgord, where he grows apples and walnuts experimentally to establish new money crops. Floirat has also helped to revive the dying truffle industry. Natives insisted that a virus had wiped out truffles; Floirat proved that they would reflourish if the oak groves where they grew were thinned and the soil cultivated. Soon to be honored by the Périgourdins for this achievement, Floirat is unmoved by his new distinction. Says he: "Missiles or truffles, the main thing is to go about it scientifically. I wasn't created to lose...
...guardian angel is "going to be very largely on-the-job training as far as I am concerned," she admitted, as she started doing her own grocery shopping for the first time in 15 years. Then she wryly reported her research to a women's club in Royal Oak, Mich. "Eggs," she confided, "are 59? a dozen...
...Riddiford and Williams repeated the experiment with a variety of trees and found that in all except oak, no mating occurred...
...biology team next plans to trace the reaction which causes the oak vapor to activate the female. They will remove certain endocrine glands to see if the moths will still mate without these glands...
Unwilling to wait until spring, when the moths could be mated outside, Dr. Riddiford placed the moths in a cage with oak seedlings. These moths and a pair in a nearby cage mated...