Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harvard science marches on, and the store of the world's knowledge is increased thereby. Today it becomes known that through the efforts of Cambridge research workers the known age of higher plant forms on earth has been substantially doubled...
Fossil remains of the world's oldest land plant, a primitive shoot of the Cambrian era, 500,000,000 years age, have been found by a local paleobotanist in black oil shale from Sweden...
William C. Darrah, instructor in Botany and research curator of the Botanical Museum, made the discovery from specimens obtained abroad by Edward C. Jeffrey, professor of Plant Morphology, emeritus, and Alfred C. Lane '83, former professor of Geology and Mineralogy at Tufts...
...Confidential Guide, to find a Department which the undergraduates really consider top-notch. Such a Department is Biology, for in all but a few instances the courses are well-taught, many of the teachers exhibit a desire to be of more than impersonal help to the students, and the plant and equipment with which the Department labors ranks as among the finest laboratory facilities in the Country. And the field is valuable to the undergraduate not merely because it is an interesting subject in itself, but also because it supplies an excellent springboard into the realm of medicine...
...ones, such as blind landing systems, for which there is vital need. Some 500 men will soon start work on the site, 20 minutes from Manhattan across George Washington Bridge, constructing a factory, laboratory and foundry big enough for 2,500 workers. One device they will make when the plant is completed next winter and for which many airlines are eagerly waiting is Pan American Airway's famed Direction Finder system, the manufacturing rights to which cagey Vincent Bendix acquired last month. A complex mechanism by far the best of its kind in the world, it works from...