Word: plantes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smithsonian Program. Study of the ultraviolet rays in sunlight; of the sea's water, waves, currents, tides and the sea's relationships to men, animals and plants; of the 600,000 odd kinds of insect that compete with man for existence on the earth; expansion of plant studies in South America (for drugs, gums, oils, spices, fibres, fruits and dyes)?that, broadly speaking, would be the program of the Smithsonian Institution this year?Austin H. Clark, Washington...
...Chemistry at Johns Hopkins University, has been prophesying the universal use of his product in steelmaking, oilrefining, refrigeration. Last week he was able to report striking progress. A steel mill in England is using it; the U. S. Steel Corporation plans to install it in one of its plants; a New England manufacturer of refrigerating cars uses it; the Paulsboro, N. J. plant of the Standand Oil Co. uses...
...motor car for almost every other conceivable purpose, leading Detroit automobile makers have now organized a company entitled "Snow Motors Inc.," to put out a machine which will negotiate the deepest snowdrifts at six to eight miles an hour. The new car will consist of a Ford tractor power-plant mounted on two revolving cylinders instead of wheels-something on the order of a steam roller. The machine has already proved its usefulness in deep snow previously unnavigable. One such machine has done the work which formerly required three teams. In Oregon a stage line uses a snow motor...
...convictions, on a mode of conduct the mere thought of which causes us these days to be bored." One might conclude from this that Mr. Farrar's ideal American is the alert active person whose been eye takes in any given situation at a glance, whose firm feet immediately plant them selves immovably on one side of the fence in question, whose active mind thereafter either views with alarm what lies beyond the fence or points proudly to what he stands beside on the right side...
...farmers are rich enough to pay income taxes; that 553,000 farmers own radio sets; that the average family income on the farm is $1,504, of which $634 is furnished in food, fuel and housing by the farm; that an odor of the cotton plant has been isolated and plans are being laid to manufacture it synthetically as a bait to lure boll weevils to their doom...