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...botanist, Sir Eric conducted research on hybrid vigor, plant ecology, and the growth and nutrition of duck weed. After the war, he wrote a series of papers on the growth of leaves...
...film. His father spent his working lifetime painting trawlers. "The only way he could have earned less than he did was not to have worked at all," says Tom. But in stead of filling him with resentment, Courtenay's humble beginnings inspired him. Under Britain's weed-killing series of national examinations, only one in thousands from a background like Courtenay's ever receives more than an elementary education. Courtenay...
Penny for a Weed. An obligation to serve society was instilled in the Rockefeller brothers by their father, and has taken in varying degrees. John D. Jr. taught his boys that the Rockefeller money belonged to God and that the Rockefellers themselves were merely its stewards. "Father never allowed us to feel that we would ever have unlimited sums of money," David recalls. At seven, David spent eight hours raking leaves on the spacious grounds of the family's Pocantico Hills, N.Y., estate to earn $2. Other times he pulled weeds out of the terrace of the Seal Harbor...
...Other names for the puncture weed: goat-head, Mexican sandburr, ground burr...
...pruning archaisms from their translation: saith and doth are out; thee and thou are not used, except when God is addressed. Lord (in capital letters) will be used in place of Jehovah-a philologically meaningless attempt to render the sacred Hebrew Tetragrammaton YHWH. The translators are also trying to weed out what Driver calls "nonsense" caused by faulty reading of the manuscripts. In Psalm 2, for example, "Tremble before him and kiss his feet in homage" will replace a serious misinterpretation in the King James Version: "Rejoice with trembling. Kiss the son, lest he be angry." Job's picturesque...