Word: rooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Absence not long enough to root...
Chapman's protectionist plea would find ready support from a small but growing number of U.S. producers pinched by foreign competition. Manufacturers of typewriters, fishing tackle, brass plumbing and floor tile, along with shrimp fishermen and horseradish-root growers, are asking the Government to check foreign competition. Such successful Japanese imports as transistor radios, umbrellas and chinaware are rising. So are imports of scissors and shears from Italy and West Germany, leather gloves from France and fish meal (for fertilizer) from Canada and Peru...
...time. He soon moved to Columbia to set up new courses in geophysics. In 1948 the widow of New York Financier Thomas W. Lament left to Columbia her magnificent Hudson River estate. Ewing and his staff moved in. What particularly took Ewing's eye was a spacious underground root cellar (30 ft. by 5° ft) cut in solid bedrock. During the Depression, according to the local story, the Lamonts had stocked it with food to carry them through an expected revolution. Ewing found it an ideal hideaway for his sensitive seismographs...
Rauwolfia serpentina root...
...cube housing 72 small cylinders, each containing an ultraviolet arc. The cylinders were designed so that every passing air particle swirled within 3 in. of a germ-killing arc light. Since ultraviolet rays kill germs more effectively at close range-their germicidal effect is proportionate to the square root of the distance-a microbe had only 1/256th as much chance of surviving a trip through the cylinders as it would have under an ultraviolet lamp hanging 4 ft. above the operating table...