Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...orchilla, a species of lichen is very valuable and from it the natives produce a rich purple dye. This plant may have been one of the sources of supply of purple dye obtained by the Greeks. A second uncommon plant which we came across was the barilla, the leaves of which glisten as though make of ice. From it the gatherers obtain soda. Specimens of a large, black, spider, is lycosa ingens were found. This spider is smaller than the Cuban tarantula and notable for its coal blackness...
...bulk of the evidence points to microparasites as the probable cause of sarcomas and carcinomas,'' says Dr. Erwin F. Smith, chief plant pathologist of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and Vice President of the American Association for Cancer Research...
...Smith who demonstrated that the crown gall, a plant disease resembling animal cancer, could be experimentally transmissted from plant to plant by cultures of a microorganism found in the gall. He is convinced that human cancers are caused by a similar infection, though no active parasite, either bacterium or protozoon, has yet been found. Many investigators of plant and animal cancer have caused cancer experimentally in varied ways-by injecting a virus from the growths, by painting rats with irritating substances, and by nematodes (microscopic worms), tape worms, other parasites. In short, Dr. Smith's theory is that...
...Rolls-Royce is not in it with a modern airplane for reliability. Although the power plant of an air- plane works continuously at almost top power and the engine of a car at only a third of its full power, the airplane engine breaks down far less frequently. Its gasoline system, its cooling, lubrication and ignition systems are far superior to those found in the land vehicle. Such are the deliberate findings of a well known aeronautical engineer (Grover C. Loening) and of one of the best known automobile builders in the country (Henry M. Crane, designer of the famous...
...Charles M. Schwab and voiced a plea for " help, help, help." Of Mr. Schwab, Mr. George said: "He was the first man to come to our aid in organizing a more ample and efficient supply of munitions. The Kaiser offered him three times the price his great plant was worth in an effort to rob us of his support, but he stood by the Allies. You can therefore appreciate the feeling of a Britisher who took a leading part in the prosecution of the War toward a man who gave such chivalrous and generous aid to the cause of liberty...