Word: plant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of California, Professor Charles Bernard Lipman, plant physiologist, took a chunk of pre-Cambrian rock. The piece came from Canada. Geologists considered it 100 to 200 million years old. Professor Lipman split the chunk and from the fractured surfaces scraped what he hoped were primeval microbes...
...kinds are shaped like tops. The rotifer head is round and surrounded at the flat shoulder with fine cilia which vibrate (in life) so rapidly one after another around the circle of shoulder that the whole body seems to rotate. They are voracious and pugnacious, crouching on a microscopic plant and then swiftly springing at a stray water flea, a protozoa, a bit of leaf...
...Lastly, you read an editorial clipping which stated that Toronto, where the government owns the electric plants, supplies electricity at the rate of two cents per kilowatt hour; while in Alabama, electricity is produced in a government plant at less than two cents per kilowatt hour and then sold by this government plant for eight cents. Does not the Democratic program, of government ownership of the generating plants, with distribution by private companies mean that consumers will be forced--as they now are in Alabama--to pay an enormous profit to the distributing companies? Harvard Thomas-for-President Club, Donald...
...fact of salient importance in the announcement of the changes of plans for the new indoor athletic plant is the postponement of the erection of a swimming pool. Reparation of the one great failure of Harvard athletic equipment to keep pace with policy, expected by many this winter, is delayed until some indefinite date...
Assistant Comptroller E. S. Emery '28 stated, upon being interviewed, that the bronze tablet has been temporarily removed to safe quarters while the buildings on and around Winthrop Street were being razed to make room for the projected Freshman athletic plant. It will be replaced in all probability upon the new structure to be erected on the site. The plaque states upon it "here lived Theodore Roosevelt during four formative and fruitful years as a member of Harvard College...