Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sample of the lengths to which relief administrators may be driven by such a puzzle when CWA paid educated men & women to produce grand opera in the Ozarks, study the Relation of Fascism to Women's Education, make dolls out of old inner tubes, translate German manuscripts on plant diseases, write poems inside a 900-word vocabulary, The nation tolerantly lumped all such doings under the head of "just raking leaves back & forth...
Runner-up was John Upley, blacksmith, onetime engraver & decorator at the Rolls-Royce plant at Springfield, Mass., who valued a painting of a hangover at $1,000 the square inch...
...than albino humans, lobsters, squirrels, peacocks, porcupines. About one out of every seven normal humans carries the albino inheritance in his germ-plasm as a recessive Mendelian character, and one person in every 25,000 is an albino. Albinism has been recorded in the great majority of animal and plant species. But Dr. Noble, contemplating Whitey, guessed that possibly not more than one like her could be found among millions of pond frogs. Naturalists believe most "pale frogs" are not true albinos but are pale because a pituitary defect impedes the function of their black pigment cells and not because...
...power sales promoted by Hydro's low rates in the booming 1920-5 would continue indefinitely, Hydro's former Conservative management signed up for huge blocks of power on a rising scale of delivery for years to come. After Depression struck Ontario, Hydro, with its own plant capacity of 1,200,000 h.p., found itself paying for additional power from Quebec it could...
Coal Miner Joe Kovarsky (Alan Baxter), jobless because he had been wrongly accused of participation in a plant bombing, is given a cruel choice. Either he must turn stoolpigeon on his fellow-workers, or the mine boss will deny Joe's wife the services of the company doctor in childbed. Joe does the human rather than the idealistic thing. His treachery is ultimately uncovered by his associates, and Joe departs from home and friends, a remorseful exile...