Word: plante
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then Tribune Publisher Deming sold out February 1 to Alfred G. Hill, publisher of the Fort Collins (Colo.) Express-Courier. But by August 1 Publisher Hill was ready to consolidate with the Eagle. Highly pleased, Publisher McCraken popped his paper from his dingy building into the superior Tribune plant...
...task was to move 500 tons of mining plant and workers from La Paz 60 miles over the peaks to the long disused Tipuani Valley Mine lying almost at sea level in a depression between the Andes. At take-off an airplane must rise from a landing field at La Paz, 12,000 feet above the Pacific, and immediately rise another 8,000 feet to clear the crest of the Cordillera before descending into the narrow valley...
...huge protein molecule -a "macro-molecule." Was it alive or not alive? No known living thing is crystalline in form. It would be fantastic to imagine a crystalline pig. Yet the virus showed the ability to reproduce itself in great quantities when stimulated by contact with a plant. Thus the Princeton chemist had discovered an apparent bridge between living and nonliving matter. This was a discovery of Nobel Prize calibre...
...latest discoveries have gone even further. Other plant viruses resisted the chemical method of separation. Dr. Ralph Wyckoff, however, designed an air-driven centrifuge, which now serves not only to measure molecular weights but to perform the first separation of viruses...
...order to study the phenomena of plant and animal life in fresh water the Department of Sanitary Engineering has equipped a pair of 20-foot Cape Cod oyster boats which have been launched on Fresh Pond...