Word: vigor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After more than 700 experiments conducted by about 150 people on 27,000-odd seeds and seedlings, concludes Experimenter Loehr, "our research has shown . . . that prayer can make a difference in the speed of seed germination and in the rate and vigor of plant growth. This in turn demonstrates two things: 1) that prayer is fact, and 2) that scientific laboratory research can be done in basic religious fields...
...statistical error. What worried economists was the failure of employment to chalk up the seasonal rise that usually comes in February. Nonetheless, Administration economists expect the employment and unemployment picture to improve slowly, simply because in almost every other area the U.S. economy is showing signs of increased vigor. Items...
Tillich lives with his wife in a cluttered, 3½-room apartment on Chauncy Street in Cambridge (his son René Stephen, 24, is a Harvard student, his daughter Erdmuthe Christiane Farris, 33, a Manhattan housewife). At 72, Tillich has all his old intellectual vigor, though he may doze off for moments during a conversation, and he goes through a regular, 10-minute "yawning period" every day at 6 p.m. An occasional stimulant at that time: cognac, which is kept in his office filing cabinet under "H" (for Hennessy). Tillich is likely to be on the road lecturing three...
...Following Mendelian genetic principles, Professor George Harrison Shull of the Carnegie Institution of Washington developed the first hybrid corn in 1908. This was more than mere crossing: by generations of inbreeding he got pure strains which when mated yielded an almost explosive yield increase given the name of "hybrid vigor." But Shull's work was commercially valueless; the seed was too expensive. Not till 1935, after further discoveries by U.S. Department of Agriculture Researcher Donald Jones and commercial seedsmen, such as Henry A. Wallace, onetime (1933-40) U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, could commercial seed companies put hybrid corn...
...last two months the Teamsters have showed real evidence of renewed vigor in two major unionizing thrusts: one to take over Metropolitan police forces, the other to take control of workers in missiles and allied fields. Hoffa has backed away from his original stand that he would force unionization in every police force in the nation, but while his original position further damaged the unhappy reputation of the teamsters, within the union, Hoffa seems to have suffered little...