Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spot this "something," they used the ultramodern technique of radioactive tracers. First they grew yeast cells in a solution containing radioactive phosphorus-32, whose uneasy atoms the cells built into certain of their proteins. With a Geiger counter, the scientists could follow these radioactive protein molecules...
Priest at Work. Though St. Procopius Abbey is in rural country outside the city, the new Abbot will not be wholly removed from the Studs Lonigan district in which he grew up and has lived all his life. Under his supervision will be the priests of several Chicago parishes like his old one of St. Michael's, as well as priests scattered over several states. He will have charge also of Benedictine missions in China and Czechoslovakia...
...christening ceremonies for a new warship, the admiral found himself standing next to a lieutenant commander. Just to make conversation, he asked the younger officer: "What class were you?" The commander grew flustered, stammered that he wasn't an Annapolis man at all. Then it was the admiral's turn to be flustered. He confessed last week: "I had no intention of embarrassing the man. I shouldn't have mentioned class...
...Lunarium. Yet the older Adams grew, the more he soured and the louder became his mocking. "I bob like a buoy in a seasick ocean," he complained. "I flop and paddle about in my own hyper-spaces. . . . The whole thing here looks like a general Lunarium. ... A queer Byzantine world, it is, and a pure waste of life to live...
Child of England. Field Place, the Sussex manor house where Shelley was born and grew up, "has a mighty roof of Horsham stone, and a line of chimneys like towers." It also has a park, a brook and a lake satisfactory to a fanciful child. Shelley's father, the squire, was a progressive gentleman farmer and brought up his eldest son to know something about pig-raising and Swedish turnips. If Percy seemed literary in boyhood, his literariness was long confined to a large appetite for sixpenny thrillers about vampires, specters and enchantments-a set of motifs he never...