Word: pears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Joseph Harrison Ill '56 of Ardmore Penn, and Dunster House was elected varsity heavy crow manager for 1955-56. William H. Pear II '56 of Greenwich, Conn., and Dunster will manage the varsity 150-pound crew in the same year...
...week's col umn, said Pearson, was written only be cause "I didn't have anything better to write about," and was sent out two days before the briefing. It was set in type in many papers before the hydrogen film Was shown to other newsmen. Snapped Pear son : "Just because I pulled an April Fool scoop on them is no reason for their accusations." Actually, Pearson's column caused no excitement in newspaper offices when it came in. Almost all of his syndicate customers ran it in its usual position far back in the paper...
...bright and happy still-lifes. Cannabin, done in thickly applied tropical reds and blue-greens, showed flies feeding on the carcass of a dog. Minotaur set such modern forms as radar equipment and airplane parts in a desolate, post-Armageddon landscape. On the other hand, Still-Life with Pear was as cheerful and peaceful as a morning in spring, and Made in U.S.A. expressed the hustling vitality of a city waterfront...
...Assyriologist Samuel Noah Kramer needed the help of Pennsylvania State College's Dr. Martin Levey, a specialist in the history of science, to figure out the materia medica which the ancient physician was prescribing. Most were dissolved in wine or beer, e.g.: "Grind to a powder pear-tree wood and the moon plant, then pour kushumma wine over it and let [plain] oil and hot cedar oil be spread over...
Tree Doctor. Chas. Pfizer & Co. of Brooklyn has developed a new antibiotic drug* for trees and plants that cures such previously fatal plant diseases as fire blight (in apple and pear trees) and halo blight (in beans). Agrimycin, a compound of streptomycin and terramycin, is absorbed into the plants' systems just as antibiotics penetrate the human blood stream. The drug will be available in quantity by March...