Word: pollens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discovery of the 60,000 year-old pollen last year was the final evidence the scientists needed to prove that corn originated in this hemisphere...
Discovery of fossilized grains of 60,000 year old corn pollen 200 feet beneath Mexico City last year has definitely established that corn is a native of the Western Hemisphere and did not originate in Asia, four University botanists announced Saturday...
...Mexico City corn pollen fossils were found in drill cores studied by Dr. Paul Sears of Yale and Mrs. Kathryn Clisby of Oberlin College. The Bat Cave corn was found by Herbert Dick, then of Colorado State Museum...
Many of the old estates had been taken over by 20th Century squires whose bank balances outran their pedigrees. Alongside such ancient names as Wolley-Dod of Edge, Willock-Pollen of Little Bookham, Polwhele of Polwhele and MacLachlan of MacLachlan, Landed Gentry now lists Martins, Bartons and Fishers. It even mentions 700 people in the U.S., including Cinemactress Joan Fontaine and the International Harvester McCormicks of Chicago...
...Herbert L. Everett of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station told about a frustrated petunia that remains forever virgin and so goes right on flowering. Dr. Everett crossed two widely different varieties of petunia. One of the offspring was sterile; the flowers had proper female ovules but no fertile male pollen. By crossing and recrossing, Dr. Everett can now make most kinds of petunias sterile. They flaunt their flowers hopefully, inviting bees to visit them. The bees come as usual, but the flowers cannot dust them with fertilizing pollen. So the desperate virgin, to its own frustration and to the delight...