Word: stem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of feeding doughnuts to cab horses and leading a "back to nature" movement along the main stem, he falls in love with a female reporter (Jean Arthur) who stars him in her gossip column for the local yellow press. Disillusioned at discovering this, he takes a gallant fling at the modern social structure by giving his money to the deserving poor. At this point relatives step in with a motion to ship him off to an insane asylum. In the uproarious sanity trial which follows he is accused of everything from abnormal mental depression to "pixylation" (state of being...
...giant star, sailing through the sea of space, were a battleship a million miles from stem to stern, and some spark set off its powder magazine, the result would be something like what happens when a star explodes as a supernova. Supernovae are the mightiest celestial cataclysms known to man. Last week astronomers at Mt. Wilson Observatory in California reported discovery and observation of a super-nova in the distant island universe NGC 4273. Although about a dozen supernovae have been found by chance on photographic plates, the one announced last week was the first since 1901 to be watched...
Ceremoniously last week Dr. Fernberger presented the relic to the University of Pennsylvania. It consisted of a few frail, faded leaves clinging to a spindly stem, starkly silhouetted against a rectangle of white cardboard...
...imprisonment in Fort Jefferson, on the dry Tortugas, off the southern tip of Florida. He tried to escape, failed, was put in a solitary dungeon. When yellow fever killed the prison's doctor and scores of its 1,000 convicts, Dr. Mudd volunteered his services, worked heroically to stem the epidemic. In the spring of 1869 he was pardoned by President Andrew Jackson...
...White Zimmerman, 51, and Albert Edwin Hitchcock, 38, plant physiologists of the Boyce Thompson Institute (Yonkers, N. Y.); the $1,000 prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: for a paper on plant hormones, including one which causes roots to sprout from any place on the stem if rubbed with the hormonal preparation. Dr. William Bosworth Castle, 38, associate professor of Harvard's School of Medicine; the Procter Award of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy & Science: for showing that pernicious anemia may be due to inefficient digestive juices. Isaiah Bowman, 57, president of Johns Hopkins University...