Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arts because " My wife, who was graduated from the college here, would not let me live in the same house with her if I opposed the fine arts school." And modern languages to " enable a student to read a menu card intelligently " will be offered, and a model packing plant may be installed. The President sums it all up thus: " Practical demonstration of the theoretical is my first aim for the college." And apparently he believes in the corollary: if you can't demonstrate it, don't teach...
...volts, twice the voltage ever before generated experimentally, and ten times greater than the highest voltage used in commercial transmission, was produced at a public demonstration in the Pittsfield (Mass.) laboratories of the General Electric Company, under the guidance of Giuseppe Faccioli, chief electrical engineer of the plant, and Frank W. Peek, Jr., consulting engineer, who invented much of the machinery involved...
...Haldeman-Julius unique in his field. The recently organized Kingsport Press, of Kingsport, Tenn., has established there a huge printing plant, with pulp and paper mill attached, to have a capacity of 250,000 copies a day. The Press's first order is an edition of 155,000 copies of the New Testament. After that it will turn to secular authors and produce a series including Stevenson, Kipling, Conan Doyle, Fenimore Cooper?256 page books, printed on standard paper, bound in cloth covers and sold at a price as low as costs will allow...
...award of the medal is made at irregular intervals to men who have done conspicuous service in bringing into the United States useful and valuable plants. In a letter which accompanied the medal, the Council of the American Genetic Association referred to Dr. Sargent as "easily the outstanding leader in the world of plant introduction...
Professor C. S. Sargent '02, director of the Arnold Arboretum, has been awarded the Frank N. Meyer Agricultural Medal by the American Genetic Association "for distinguished services in the field of foreign plant introduction...