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Show Proposed New Word. Hut a few arore word In the Kng-:i:i Kng-:i:i liHiKuage begin with the letter "x." The aueestlon that a new word, 'x'-ra lexis," be admitted lo their ferried fer-ried funks Is therefore an undertaking of seme Icnwrtty. Dr. H. F. Roberts proposes It In Science, to replace "ibm clumsy and ruber 111 sounding corn pound, 'drought-resistance. " The second sec-ond hulf of the new word Is from tb Greek "alexeds," which Impllr a keeping keep-ing off or resistance, and Is related to the latter part of tbe Greek derivative, "irophylaxia." |