Word: phlox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston mother expressed concern over her infant son's propensity for eating TIME'S covers and four-color ads. She wanted to know whether the red and other colored inks would harm him. Our production department advised her that red inks contain phlox-ine, which has lead in it-and lead will not do anybody's son any good...
People are always asking greying Microbiologist Selman Abraham Waksman, 60, how he discovered the wonder drug streptomycin in 1943. Modest Dr. Waksman (rhymes with phlox-man) has a stock answer which makes it sound pretty simple. He merely examined about 10,000 cultures, he explains. Only 1,000 would kill bacteria in preliminary tests; only 100 looked promising in later tests; only ten were isolated and described; one of the ten proved to be streptomycin. It just happened that streptomycin was the first effective drug that doctors had ever found to fight tuberculosis...
...indexed folders of biographical, historical, business and otherwise usefully classified information. * The answers, in order: 1) Yellow Kid by Richard Outcoult, in the New York World; 2) 280 days; 3) Yes. At the 1924 convention in New York City; 4) Not even the wisest hagiologist knows; 5) lotus blossoms, phlox pods, the squirting cucumber of southern Europe; 6) average cost of a Class 6 battleship: $92,122,100; 7) an estimated...
...Some non-Japanese flower listeners say that the evening primrose (Oenothera) makes a "snapping" sound when it opens. Seed pods, of course, can be much noisier; on warm September days phlox pods explode with a soft pop. The squirting cucumber (Ecballium) of Southern Europe sounds like a cork leaving a champagne bottle, and the tropical sandbox tree (Hura, crepitans) has an orange-sized capsule which "explodes with a loud report...
...land, announced the discovery of remark able effects produced on plants by colchicine (TIME, Nov. 8, 1937). The drug causes a doubling of the chromosomes (heredity carriers) in the germ cells of vegetables and flowers, producing sharp changes which breed true. It increased the growth rates of tobacco, phlox, onions, pumpkins, cosmos, radishes, portulaca, digitalis. It abolished the neck in bottle neck squashes...