Word: taproot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tannic acid of tree-sap is as actively disease-resistant as human blood; and 2) the circulatory system of a tree will by suction pressure carry medicine to diseased organs just as effectively as does the bloodstream, Tree Man John Casterline attached a rubber hose to the taproot (main root) of a chestnut tree, planted the other end in a gallon of tannic acid. Within a day, the acid working upward with the sap had begun to check the fungus. Once the parasite was killed, the trees began to flourish again. For protection the acid tanks were allowed to remain...
...baby, nobody attending her during hours of labor; nobody by her side then except that man who walked yonder in the war valley where the poppies somehow give off a new blood color to the taproot and make it redder by virtue of the selfsame blood that gave this country birth. And this morning she is there in that manger. Why, she has been feeding all of her babies on oatmeal soup for a week, please God, with the aid of her husband while she lies there without any sort of comfort whatever...