Word: raper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Biologist John Robert Raper of Harvard turned up with something new under the scientific sun-a clear demonstration of the function in plants of hormones which are not growth hormones but sexual. The host: Achlya ambisexualis, a minute water fungus which Dr. Raper discovered some time ago in the Charles River...
...Raper was careful to point out that thi functioning of sex hormones in Achlya ambisexualis does not imply anything similar in other plants.* Even so hormonic sex can no longer be regarded as the exclusive cock-a-doodle-doo of the animal kingdom...
Zampillaerrotationist Sirs: ... I have noticed the word "rapist" in TIME occasionally. A rapist would I should think be one who advocated, practiced or devoted himself to rape through conviction. One who has raped or is raping would I imagine be a raper. Probably they don't care what we call them-just a question of accurate English, so long as you choose to mention them at all. One who skates is a skater. A zampillaerrotationist is one who makes a profession or an art of skating-on rollers. I don't like your whim of setting telegrams...
...Hurvich 4G., Norman B. Keevil 3G., John R. Lacher 3G., Edward W. Moore, instructor in Sanitary Chemistry, Stanley J. G. Nowak, instructor in Surgery, James A. Noble 1G., James G. O'mara 3G., Howard A. Potter 4G., Kenneth B. Raper 2G., Wendell A. Ray 4G., True W. Robinson 7GG., William E. Schevill, assistant curator in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernest R. Sears 4G., Wesley W. Spink, assistant in Medicine, Robert E. Stauffer...
...public see what is being painted in the United States today. A newspaper doesn't endorse murder when it prints the news of a murder." May I complete his statement by adding that neither do newspapers pay prize money to the murderers? . . . GEORGIA S. RAPER Columbus, Ohio...