Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...method is called parthenocarpy (Greek parthenos, virgin; carpos, fruit). The chemical is indoleacetic acid, or heteroauxin, a famed plant hormone which has been used to stimulate root-sprouting and growth (TIME, Oct.11). Heteroauxin can be made synthetically at a cost of about $3 per ounce. One ounce in very dilute solution is enough to treat hundreds of plants. At the Department of Agriculture's experiment station in Beltsville, Md., Frank Easter Gardner and Ezra Jacob Kraus of the University of Chicago sprayed holly blooms with heteroauxin, obtained berries. These parthenocarpic fruits contained no trace of embryo, but the plant...
...been the great steel-master's fancy to provide his distinguished dinner guests with a soft pencil and a fresh section of damask on which to write their signatures. The autographs were preserved by being embroidered. Among them: Joseph H. Choate, Mark Twain, Myron C. Taylor, Elihu Root, Seth Low, Brander Matthews, Woodrow Wilson, Henry James, John Burroughs, Mme Marie Curie. Mark Twain signed a second time as S. L. Clemens. After the present exhibition, this bit of historic needlework will go back into the service of Mrs. Carnegie, who still uses it on occasion...
...moot court arguments runner-up honors went to Shepherd Brooks '36 and George M. Duff, Jr. of the Scott Law Club; and Malcolm E. Erskine and Bryan S. Moore, Root Law Club representatives...
...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...
...plagiarizing French wine names he claims indignantly that Burgundy is as much a descriptive word as whiskey. He also enjoys pointing out that when the disease Phylloxera virtually wiped out European vineyards between 1870 and 1880, the only thing that saved them was grafting European grape vines on the root stock of the wild vine of California...