Word: spraying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...arose from the graves of time to live again in pomp and pageantry. Homer's heroes exchanged ringing blows on the windy plains of Troy. Armored knights spurred in quest of the Holy Grail. Lear went raving over the heath. A tramp steamer careened across the Indian Ocean shearing spray off her bows, and the dawn came up like thunder.... And on the hard wooden chairs sat hundreds of boys, young barbarians, fascinated, spellbound, many if not most of them realizing, perhaps for the first time in their lives the delight of great literature, the majesty of the English tongue...
...Plant Sprays.. Copper hydroxide used as a spray is 15 times more effective as a fungicide than Bordeaux mixture commonly used on plants, and moreover leaves no stain. It may be the active ingredient of Bordeaux mixture.-Dr. Henry D. Hooker, University of Missouri...
...which grows in long gray festoons on Southern trees, has no roots and subsists entirely on what it gets from the air. Yet its ashes contain large amounts of sodium, iron, silicon, sulphur, chlorine. Whence these elements? Chlorine, sodium, sulphur may be carried high in the air by ocean spray, and come down in rain. The presence of the iron and silicon is a puzzle.-Dr. Edgar T. Wherry, Dr. Ruth Buchanan, U. S. Department of Agriculture...
Suddenly he saw, close to Governor's Island, a tapering cloud coming down to a point within some 700 ft. of the water. Up from the water rose a column of spray. It was perhaps 100 ft. in diameter and SO ft. high. The spout travelled rapidly northward for about a mile in the course of five minutes and then disappeared. Fortunately, no incoming liners or plying ferry boats were in its path. It whisked a few pieces of lumber from a passing barge but otherwise no damage was done. It was the first waterspout ever observed in New York...
Dauss King grew a bale of cotton on his Lord's acre, which he did not even spray with calcium arsenate. "It is in the Lord's hands," said...