Word: seeds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Randolph, C-Entry and Westmorly. The Randolph courtyard looks dandy in the rain especially when seen to the rhythmic accompaniment of the heating pipes. Randolph's marble sinks add a touch of gentility, except when they fall apart as they occasionally do. For those who admire elegance gone to seed, Randolph is the place to live...
Harvard's other ace sophomore, Jose Gonsales, almost upset Yale's John West in the quarterfinals, but the hard-hitting number two seed held on, 16-13, 5-15, 15-10, 6-15, 16-14. In the semi-finals, West changed tactics and tried to exchange softer shots with Penn's Howard Coonley. It didn't work, and Coonley...
Adams, fourth-seed in the tournament, defeated Penn's Clay Hamlin in the first round, 3-1, but then bowed to Larry O'Laughlin of Pittsburgh, 15-10, 15-12, 15-10. O'Laughlin, a tough veteran, was unseeded because of insufficient data...
Archaeological folklore is enhanced by fanciful yarns about an ancient Pharaoh's tomb containing dried seeds that sprouted when planted and watered-thousands of years after they were first interred. The truth of the tale has yet to be proved, but common chickweed seeds have germinated after lying dormant for more than three decades; Oriental lotus seeds, after about 1,000 years. Such long survival, despite heat, cold or even radiation, is managed by the seed when it enters anabiosis -a state of suspended animation in which its metabolism stops, its skin hardens and thickens, and its water content...
Fascinated by the dormant seed, botanists have long been frustrated in their efforts to see or photograph it clearly. Preparing slides for microscopic inspection usually necessitated the use of liquid solutions that immediately revived anabiotic cells, altering the dormant structures. Now, because of the perseverance of German Botanist Ernst Perner, several theories about anabiosis have finally been confirmed. By using dry osmic-acid vapors to fix and stain his slides, Perner has successfully photographed anabiotic pea cells with an electron microscope...