Word: planting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other projects undertaken by the Film Service, is the making of high speed and unperceptively slow speed films. This makes it possible to observe the breaking of a bulb as well as the growing of a plant. At present it is making a print for the Harvard Forest as well as the fatigue laboratories...
Under the supervision of Kenneth T. Bainbridge, assistant professor of Physics, Kenneth V. Thimann, assistant professor of Plant Physiology, and John W. Mehl, instructor and tutor in Bio-chemical Sciences, the second of two joint conferences on Physics, Biology, and Biochemistry will be held at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon in the Senior Common Room of Eliot House...
...healthy old man. For many years he has worked hard, ridden a bicycle for exercise, worn white clothes the year around "to let sun-light through," chewed each mouthful of vegetarian fodder 32 times. Editor of Good Health, author of Plain Facts (sex education via pictures of plant life), he is the inventor of flaked cereals manufactured by his brother, W. K. Kellogg. Dr. Kellogg once dictated (indoors) for 20 hours straight, dressed only in his summer underwear. Last week he celebrated his 86th birthday by stripping to a loin cloth, dictating (outdoors) to a secretary, having his picture taken...
...Government officially announced that the Labor Front is now beginning work "immediately" near Brunswick on the world's largest automobile plant, expressly to build Volkswagen. The plant, a Nazi show place, is to rise in the open countryside, surrounded by new homes for thousands of workers, with sports grounds, gymnasium, a hotel for visitors, administration offices perched high in a tower. Keynoted Nazi spokesmen: "Soon there will be a Volkswagen for every German...
...they prefer the hole. In a century-old pestilent swamp in Palos Park one afternoon last week they blasted out a vast sump, of which they planned to make a mosquito-proof "wildlife oasis." If mosquito larvae in the abaters' sump don't watch out, the bladderwort plant will get them. If insectivorous plants don't get them, whirligig beetles, back swimmers, dragonfly nymphs and top-water minnows will. Ditches get stagnant and mosquito-filled. It is hoped and expected that from Palos Park's hole in the ground no single adult mosquito will...