Word: smit
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...beats," feel pain, were theories of the late Hindu Botanist Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose. Every gardener knows that "wounded" plants heal themselves with mysterious juices. Last summer, Chemist James English Jr. and James Frederick Bonner, working at the California Institute of Technology with famed Dutch Plantman Aire Jan Haagen-Smit, announced that they had solved the mystery of that healing juice. In a kitchen-simple experiment, they butchered a batch of fresh Kentucky Wonder string beans, dribbled the hormone-rich juice into the pod-linings of other wounded beans. In a few hours, large clumps of healthy new cells piled...
...following are appointed for one year from September 1: Harry R. De Silva, professor of Psychology at Massachusetts State College, Ph.D. Harvard '27, as lecturer on Motor Vehicle Administration and Driver Control; Arie J. Haagen-Smit, privat-docent of the University of Utrecht, as lecturer on Biological Chemistry; George M. Stratton, professor emeritus of Psychology at the University of California, as research follow in Psychology; Talbot H. Waterman '36 of East Orange, N. J., as Austin Teaching Follow in Biology; and Charles Schweinfurth '13 of Brookline and Louis Williams of Moose, Wyoming, as research associate of the Botanical Museum...
Most notable quality about the girl characters in Spring Dance is their idiom, said to be peculiar to Smith's Dawes House. To be "smit" is to be in love. A "thicket" is what was formerly known as a necking party. "Plent" signifies pleasant. Critics agreed that Spring Dance is "plent" rather than plausible...
...Smit...