Word: sap
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then he displayed two more in his own backyard. They had been struck with the blight, he said, but he had saved them with his new tannic acid treatment. Method of treatment is simple: on the theories currently held by tree experts, that: 1) the tannic acid of tree-sap is as actively disease-resistant as human blood; and 2) the circulatory system of a tree will by suction pressure carry medicine to diseased organs just as effectively as does the bloodstream, Tree Man John Casterline attached a rubber hose to the taproot (main root) of a chestnut tree, planted...
...reason paintings crack (more oil in bottom layers of pigment than in top layers), the question remains as to how firmly rooted this program is. One answer to that question is political and obvious. Another answer can be made only when time has had a chance to sap the present enthusiasms of the school children of Salem, Oregon, the Junior League of Sioux City, Iowa, and their counterparts in other communities...
...Finnish border with a band of smugglers. Later in Berlin, he traded on the stock exchange, imported Czechoslovak cigaret papers, made a huge success selling Eskimo Pies. Then he went to Brooklyn and entered banking. In 1929, he started in National Safety Bank & Trust Co., rose like spring sap to vice president. Whereupon he invented the CheckMaster Plan for handling checking accounts, a system which has been sufficiently imitated for him to refer to it, with fine Slavic enthusiasm, as "the only major development in deposit banking in the last quarter-century...
...solemn sap, scrawny, cartoon-faced Homer Zigler was a 23-year-old, $1-a-week cub reporter on a Buffalo newspaper when he decided to become a novelist. But first, said Homer, "to the purpose of preparing myself for that career," he would keep a journal. "The Great American Novel-" is the journal-a satire that starts off by tagging after Ring Lardner, turns off on an oily road marked Irony-&-Pity, skids into caricature, and comes to a happy halt as the June choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club-as did Author Davis' first novel...
...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...