Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Katanga, in the Belgian Congo, 1,700 miles from a sea port. Shipments are made via the Benguella Railway and Lobito Bay to Europe. Already a concentrator and electrolytic refinery and a battery of coke-ovens have been provided to work the ores extracted; while a hydro-electric plant and a leaching plant are shortly to be added...
...Over the whole play there is a dancing fringe of corrupt selectmen, bridge-builders, and rather lanky girls who chase themselves around and around the stage to register crime and bad government. At least we think it was that, because they continually mentioned the defective bridge, the unmentionable Gas Plant, and the impossible trolley line--so much so that we, who are not a bit, scientific, realized immediately that the town was being ruined by graft. However, much to our relief the "Glendale Observer" editorially besieged the forces of evil to such an extent that Kenneth was forced to speak...
Three types of greenery were considered, the elm, two poplars, or a cactus plant. The cactus plant was abandoned because in his wisdom Lampy decided it was too prickly and symbolical. The project of planting two poplars was rejected because poplars only last 30 years, and Lampy goes on forever. And so the elm was selected, long-living and symbol of eternal wisdom...
...nearly every part of the human organism. "Hands and feet are broad, pudgy and floppy; the fingers stiff, square and spadelike; the toes spread apart, like a duck's, by the solid skin. . . . Even the intelligence common to the higher animals is wanting. The cretins of the 'human plant' kind, as they have been nicknamed, will not recognize mother nor father nor any person about them, nor even a person from an object. . . . Hunger and thirst they manifest by grunts and inarticulate sounds or by screaming...
...Turner '23, devoted three months to working on steam research calculation; David Robinson '24, is taking the Student Engineering Course. W. D. Ketchem '25, and C. C. Eaton, former Librarian of the Graduate School of Business Administration, were engaged in work in the Testing Department of the plant...