Word: wind
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...female eggs. The sperm is produced and dispersed from the tassels at the top of the stalk; the eggs lurk at the base of the silk on each ear. In ordinary "open-pollinated" corn, fertilization occurs at random, the sperm-bearing pollen being carried to the silk by the wind. For inbreeding, the tassels and silk are protected by paper bags until maturity, and the plants are then self-pollinated by hand. These inbred strains become highly uniform. Finally, promising strains are crossed to combine advantages-long ears, full-kerneled ears, resistance to drought, heat, wind, insects. Since the characters...
...without any attempt at classification: "Wind, Sand and Stars," by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, is an exciting selection of reminiscences from the life of a great flier. The author's "Night Flight" will be remembered as a splendid short novel, dealing with aviation. . . "I Believe", edited and with an introduction by Clifton Fadiman. Mr. Fadiman has collected a series of personal credos from various minds of our time, ranging from H. K. Mencken to Bertrand Russell. . . . And John Sloan's "Gist of Art" is a provocative discussion of the theory and practice of art by an American painter of unquestionable...
...WIND OF BLAME - Georgette Heyer-Crime Club ($2). No one cares much when bibulous, cantankerous Wallis Carter is shot on the English estate owned by his rich ex-chorus-girl wife. Though ingenious, Inspector Hemingway's sleuthing is secondary to the bright antics of Author Heyer's genteel screwballs...
...theatre instead of at home Tuesday nights when Pot o' Gold's $1,000 telephone call comes. Odds against his losing: about 50,000-to-1. Last week the Capitol still had its original bait, had won back most of its Tuesday night crowd. In the wind was a national variation of his scheme: a $2,000 pot, offered to all cinemaudiences of major U. S. cinema circuits, and subscribed by a $1-a-week assessment on each U. S. chain cinema house...
...score of "TriState" towns house 100,000 miners and their families. Typical is Zincville in Ottawa County, Okla. Its battered shacks, pieced together out of tar paper and packing cases, nestle close to glittering mountains of "chat," or quartz dust, the "offal of the mines."On blustery days, wind whips and swirls the stinging quartz dust through the streets and into the houses. Constant inhalation of quartz dust causes silicosis...