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Word: pollenized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is no innocuous bit of pollen wafted idly on the currents of international thought. It is a seed already planted in many minds. OWI is as forbidden to speak lightly of Hirohito as it is to call Victor Emmanuel a 'moronic little king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Mikadoism | 11/1/1943 | See Source »

...wind-making machine to produce the proper breezes for wafting pollen in nut-tree groves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Path of Progress | 9/27/1943 | See Source »

...They? Scientists know surprisingly little about clouds, which were not even named or classified until 1803 (by an English druggist named Luke Howard). They know how clouds and fogs (clouds on the ground) are formed-by the cooling of humid air, which condenses water vapor on particles of dust, pollen or soot in the air. They also know what a cloud or fog is made of-water droplets (or ice crystals) so small that an 1,800-cu. ft. block of dense fog contains only one-seventh of a glass of water. But many questions, such as what makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Clouds and the War | 9/13/1943 | See Source »

...complain about the weeds in your garden. Eat them. There is nothing quite like a tossed weed salad, preceded by an entree of burdock stems in batter, and topped off by cattail-pollen pancakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: A la Nebuchadnezzar | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...will be little if any more than an electric refrigerator. Westinghouse already has made a two-cell unit selling for $300 that will clean the air in the average six-room home." Savings on cleaning and replacements are substantial; savings on health cannot be figured although the Precipitron catches pollen and bacteria. Not even tobacco smoke, which has the finest particles found in the air (16,000 side by side are no wider than a pinhead), escapes its electrical filter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dust Trap | 12/7/1942 | See Source »

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