Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...draftsman from Rudolf Eickemeyer, an electrical inventor and manufacturer of electric motors, generators and streetcars, at Yonkers, N. Y. Steinmetz's genius was soon recognized and he was given a laboratory of his own for magnetic testing. In 1892 the General Electric Co. took over the Eickemeyer plant and Steinmetz was transferred to Lynn, Mass., and a year later to Schenectady...
Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Harvard College Observatory, Professor Edward C. Jeffrey '99, authority of plant morphology, and Professor Kirsopp Lake, Winn professor of ecclesiastical history, are to be the three speakers for the first of the new series of symphosia at the University, which takes places in Emerson Hall on Tuesday evening, November 6, at 8 o'clock...
...degree of A. B. at the University of Toronto in 1888, and a Doctor of Science degree in 1919, and at the University received his Ph.D. in 1898. Since 1902 Dr. Jeffrey has been teaching here, first as assistant professor of vegetable histology and now as professor of plant morphology. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the Canadian Institute...
...issued a statement edited at the White House: " Mr. Ford this morning issued a personal attack upon me. . . . His statement is filled with reckless assertions. It may be that Mr. Ford ... is not himself possessed of the full facts of the situation." He then explained: 1) that the Gorgas plant cost less than $5,000,000 of the hundred millions expended at Muscle Shoals; 2) that under the contract made by the Wilson Administration with the Alabama Power Co. the Government had the choice of selling the Gorgas plant for $3,500,000 or junking it, which would have yielded...
...official spellings and definitions including: " Thresh " instead of "thrash"; "Brahma" instead of "Brahman" (Zebu cattle); " kafir " instead of " kaffir " or " kaffir corn "; " milo " instead of " milo maise "; " sorgo " instead of " cane sorghum"; "potato" for "Irish potato," "round potato," "white potato," " common potato "; " sweet potato" instead of "yam" for the plant Ipomoea Batatas; "purebred," "broomcorn," "butterfat" to be spellt as single words without hyphens...