Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assistant Superintendent Flora Drake of Indianapolis phrased the same idea more poetically: "A school is a 'child garden,' to translate a German term. An expert gardener should know the peculiarities of each species of plant he tries to keep growing in his garden." U. S. Commissioner of Education John J. Tigert discussed the drawbacks of democracy: "It is quite clear that democracy which has breathed so much vitality into the schools of the present generation, may be carried to the point where it will become an evil which can be equaled only by the good it has accomplished...
...Clevelanders for their Museum of Natural History, dropped anchor at Charleston, S. C., after an absence of 31 months. She had fished in the Sargasso Sea; dredged for "the lost continent, Atlantis," in the eastern Atlantic; touched on the South American and African coasts for repairs and to collect plant and animal life. Her commander, George Finlay Simmons, set about discharging his cargo of 12,000 specimens under the direction of Paul M. Rea, Cleveland museum chief. Braving superstition, the Blossom's men had shot an albatross, hooked a golden dolphin...
...keep score on communions, the wafers issued to each organization were counted. Then the number unused at the end of the day was reported to the Congress headquarters at Cathedral Square in Chicago. The offices there resembled a newspaper plant on election night. Sunday evening Cardinal Mundelein knew that he could report more than 1,000,000 communions to the Holy Father...
...morning field was threatened by the purchase of the Times by able Publisher Earle E. Martin. In Buffalo, monopoly of the morning field was systematically secured to the new Courier and Express, doubtless through the sagacity of Publisher-Politician-Sportsman William J. ("Fingy") Connors of the Courier, at whose plant the new sheet was published and whose son, William J. Jr., was announced as the new publisher. Besides the Express there was no other morning paper competing with the Courier...
...gable of the root, a recessed effect with columns on either side of the recess. With this is combined a round Lower, supported upon a pavilion of columns and set in the middle of one of the sides of the oblong rather like the stack of a power plant...