Word: rising
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cohesion theory cannot be entirely shelved, because water will rise in stalks from which the roots have been cut away, indicating suction from above. But Dr. White, speaking at the American Association for Advancement of Science convention in Indianapolis, showed clearly enough that root pressure could serve as an adequate explanation for sap transportation in the tallest known trees, and to that extent botanical theory must be revised. His colleagues considered his announcement so important that they awarded him the annual $1,000 prize conferred for the best paper among hundreds at the A. A. A. S. midwinter meeting...
...Lieutenant Antonio Menendez Pelaez, transatlantic Naval ace, wanting to reach the coast before turning north, started to cross the Cordilleras to the west. Twelve miles beyond Cali observers could easily see that the pilots were in difficulty. Powerful winds rocked and buffeted the light planes as they tried to rise above the 10,000-ft. peaks around them. They attempted to turn back. Then, eyewitnesses said, the three planes seemed to be blown together; there was a violent crash as they momentarily interlocked, a burst of flame. Like two stones the Santa Maria and Pinta fell to earth, crashed side...
Himelhoch, chairman of the Harvard delegation, explained last night that by scattering the contingent throughout the hall and having it rise as a body at a given signal, one member could generally be recognized, and then yield the floor to any other member who had a speech to make. Opposition to such tactics was short-lived, he said, since it was shown that parliamentary procedure sanctioned them...
...anemia of the brain." 2) "The weight of the body impedes breathing.'' 3) "Vital organs are crushed by the great weight." 4) "The unaccustomed warmth, especially if there is direct insolation [exposure to sun] induces heat stroke." 5) "The unaccustomed temperature interval between night and day gives rise to internal chills and probably pneumonia." 6) "The whales do not die because they are stranded; they are stranded because they are dying...
...unavoidable as Christmas crowds are the year-end sound-offs of industrial leaders and soothsayers. Among the few whose remarks are taken seriously is Colonel Leonard Porter Ayres, vice president of Cleveland Trust Co. Last week Colonel Ayres was not impressed by a 50? rise in scrap prices and the first rise since August in the New York Times business index. Like some M.Ps. in Britain (see p. 14), he predicted mainly gloomy things...