Word: torium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teens, Liberty Hyde Bailey made a plan for his life: he would spend 25 years learning, 25 years teaching, and 25 years doing "what I like best." Accordingly, one day in 1913, he simply failed to show up at the dean's office. He went to his Hor-torium (he coined the word) instead. Ever since that day, he has been doing "what I like best"-puttering in his greenhouse ("It is an oasis in one's life. . . . One has dominion"), cultivating his palms (he has the best collection in the world). He has traveled all over...