Praise for Lysenko's work included such items as credit from the Soviet newspaper Pravda for having discovered a method to fertilize fields without using fertilizers or minerals, and for having proven that a winter crop of peas could be grown in Azerbaijan, " turning the barren fields of the Transcaucasus green in winter, so that cattle will not perish from poor feeding, and the peasant Turk will live through the winter without trembling for tomorrow.

Though his work was scientifically unsound on a number of levels, Lysenko's claims delighted Soviet journalists and agricultural officials, who were impressed by its promise to minimize the resources spent in theoretical scientific laboratory work.

Soviet scientists were forced to denounce any work that contradicted Lysenko's research.

Tchaikovsky was impressed by Lysenko's Taras Bulba and wanted to stage the work in Moscow, but Lysenko's insistence on it being performed in the Ukrainian language, not Russian, prevented the performance from taking place in Moscow.

Scientific dissent from Lysenko's theories of environmentally acquired inheritance was formally outlawed in 1948, and for the next several years, opponents were purged from held positions, and many imprisoned.

Central to Lysenko's tenets was the concept of the inheritability of acquired characteristics.

Another policy was based on the ideas of Lysenko's colleague Teventy Maltsev, who encouraged peasants across China to plow deeply into the soil ( up to 1 or 2 meters ).

Lysenko's political success was due in part to his striking differences from most biologists at the time.

) Lysenko's ideas proved appealing to the Soviet leadership, in part because of their value as propaganda, and he was ultimately made director of the Soviet Academy of Agricultural Sciences ; subsequently, Lysenko directed a purge of scientists who professed " harmful ideas ," resulting in the expulsion, imprisonment, or death of hundreds of Soviet scientists.

Lysenko's " science " of agriculture was anti-genetic, instead proposing change in species through hybridization and grafting.

Between 1934 and 1940, under Lysenko's admonitions and with Stalin's blessings, many geneticists were executed ( including Israel Agol, Solomon Levit, Nikolai Vavilov, Grigorii Levitskii, Georgii Karpechenko and Georgii Nadson ) or sent to labor camps ( including the most well-known Soviet geneticist, Nikolai Vavilov, who was arrested in 1940 and died in prison in 1943 ).

In 1940, he became director of the Institute of Genetics within the USSR's Academy of Sciences, and Lysenko's anti-Mendelian doctrines were further secured in Soviet science and education by the exercise of political influence and power.

The Soviet Union quietly abandoned Lysenko's agricultural practices in favor of modern agricultural practices, after the crop yields he promised failed to materialize.

Similar Soviet media reports heralding Lysenko's further discoveries in agriculture continued from 1927 until 1964 ; reports of amazing ( and seemingly impossible ) successes, each one replaced with new success claims as earlier ones failed.

Lysenko's ideas were then implemented on collectivised farms in the Soviet Union and China.

Lysenko's widespread popularity provided him a platform to denounce theoretical genetics and to promote his own agricultural practices.

Lysenko's " revolution in agriculture " had a powerful propaganda advantage over the academics, who urged the patience and observation required for science.

Today, much of Lysenko's agricultural experimentation and research is largely viewed as fraudulent.

Party officials were looking for promising candidates with backgrounds similar to Lysenko's: born of a peasant family, without formal academic training or affiliations to the academic community.

Lysenko's genetic theories were grounded in Lamarckism.

By 1929 Lysenko's skeptics were politically censured, accused of offering only criticisms, and for failing to prescribe any new solutions themselves.

Lysenko's machinations were the cause of his arrest.

The Party-controlled newspapers applauded Lysenko's " practical " efforts and questioned the motives of his critics.

It is often suggested that Lysenko's success came solely from the desire in the USSR to assert that heredity had only a limited role in human development ; that future generations, living under socialism, would be purged of their ' bourgeois ' or ' fascist ' instincts.

From 1934 to 1940, under Lysenko's admonitions and with Stalin's approval, many geneticists were executed ( including Isaak Agol, Solomon Levit, Grigorii Levitskii, Georgii Karpechenko and Georgii Nadson ) or sent to labor camps.

Famines that resulted partly from Lysenko's influence are believed to have killed 30 million people in China alone.

Mykola Lysenko's grave at Baikove Cemetery in Kiev.

The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.

So simple, in fact, that it might even work -- although Pamela, now, in her new frame of mind, was careful not to pretend too much assurance.

He'd started a fire and put coffee on, and now was busy at the work board of his chuck wagon.

Tom Horn was soon back at work, giving his secret employers their money's worth.

The arrangement I had with him was to work four hours a day.

I quit work at my usual hour as if this day was no different from other days.

Their work was lonely.

With Ramey it was a dusty work shoe that was half-off the Indian's foot that he would always remember.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

That should do it, he thought, because Miss Langford had said she was going to be strict about school work.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.

Was it supposed, perchance, that A & M ( vocational training, that is ) was quite sufficient for the immigrant class which flooded that part of the New England world in the post-Civil War period, the immigrants having been brought in from Southern Europe, to work in the mills, to make up for the labor shortage caused by migration to the West??

His next major work, completed in 1892, was a long fantastic epic in prose, entitled Hans Alienus, which Professor Book describes as a monument on the grave of his carefree and indolent youth.

Whether in prose or poetry, all of Heidenstam's later work was concerned with Sweden.

But his own work was evolving further.

One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.

While convalescing in his Virginia home he wrote a book recording his prison experiences and escape, entitled: They Shall Not Have Me Published originally in ( Helion's ) English by Dutton & Co. of New York, in 1943, the book was received by the press as a work of astonishing literary power and one of the most realistic accounts of World War 2, from the French side.

And I was to go to work on that odd matter.

It was part of Little Jack's work to look after the dogs.

As a result, he was sent to a hospital in Arizona until his health improved enough for him to come back to Washington to work in the Government service.

But again, there was danger that his lungs would suffer in the muggy Washington weather, and he had to return to the dry climate of the West to live and work.