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Word: spore (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former Marion Spore of Bay City, Mich., redhaired, fortyish Mrs. Bush (sister of Naval Commander James S. Spore, onetime Governor of Guam) has been a practicing dentist and a practical philanthropist, known in the penny press as "The Angel of the Bowery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Automatic Painting | 2/20/1933 | See Source »

...Drayton and Ames have discovered several new and important facts, about certain types of fungi in their experiment. Nothing has been known until very recently about the sexual reproduction of fungi. Through their experiments these men have discovered that in the types of fungi they studied a single spore gives rise to a fungus plant, which produces both types of fungi they studied a single spore gives rise to fungus plant, which produces both types of reproductive organs. It is therefore hermaphroditic. But, the interesting point is that the fungus is both self-sterile and cross-fertile a condition which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Drayton, Ledingham, and Ames Experiment With Fungi at New Biological Building-Laboratory Well-Equipped For Research | 11/17/1932 | See Source »

...spore grows right straight up into adultery but a sperm does not." Most difficult mathematics question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College Boards | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

...Define and clearly distinguish between a spore and sperm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: College Boards | 7/4/1932 | See Source »

Irving T. Bush, president of Bush Terminal Co., back in the U. S. from honeymooning in Europe with his third wife (former Marian Spore, Michigan heiress, Manhattan mystic and social worker) paid without protest $83,000 in duties and fines for undeclared jewelry worth $40,000. Officials stated there was no attempt at smuggling, simply a dispute over duties on jewelry purchased in the U. S., reset in Europe, brought back. Their fines paid, the Bushes sailed once more for Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 20, 1930 | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

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