Word: virgines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Third Century, Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria, Egypt wrote to a colleague: "Apollonia the parthenos presbytis [elderly virgin] was held in high esteem. These men seized her . . . and by repeated blows broke all her teeth. They then erected outside the city gates a pile of fagots and threatened to burn her alive if she refused to repeat after them impious words. Given, at her own request, a little freedom, she sprang quickly into the fire and was burned to death...
...method is called parthenocarpy (Greek parthenos, virgin; carpos, fruit). The chemical is indoleacetic acid, or heteroauxin, a famed plant hormone which has been used to stimulate root-sprouting and growth (TIME, Oct.11). Heteroauxin can be made synthetically at a cost of about $3 per ounce. One ounce in very dilute solution is enough to treat hundreds of plants. At the Department of Agriculture's experiment station in Beltsville, Md., Frank Easter Gardner and Ezra Jacob Kraus of the University of Chicago sprayed holly blooms with heteroauxin, obtained berries. These parthenocarpic fruits contained no trace of embryo, but the plant...
...Virginia D. Virgin has charge of the campaign to suppress venereal diseases in West Virginia. Dr. Edith MacBride-Dexter has similar charge in Pennsylvania. In Illinois the executive is Dr. John McShane. Eighteen months ago these jobs were obscure ones. Then, with an article in Reader's Digest, Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service opened a campaign to cure the 6,500,000 syphilitics in the U. S., prevent a new crop of 500,000 cases developing each year. First he was obliged to destroy national taboo against discussing venereal disease publicly...
...Virgin Birth. Historical evidence is "inconclusive," although the Archbishop of York believes in it, as he does in the Resurrection, which the commission calls "the central fact in human history...
...West, Fla. Some time in the spring the Project will release Whaling Masters in Massachusetts, U. S. 30-The Oregon Trail, The Ocean Highway. Also scheduled are State guides that are to be brought out as they are completed until every State, Puerto Rico, Alaska and the Virgin Islands have been mapped, toured and described...