Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Chicago grew rapidly. Twelve years after its incorporation, it added a Divinity School, a Law School, a Medical School, and a School of Education with the unique feature of a "practice school system" for kindergarden, elementary, and secondary classes...
Governments could do little, short of war, to stay Russia's brutal repression of Hungary. Diplomats could only register protests. But the people could and did respond with a revulsion that grew into a worldwide cry of anguish...
...attract both brains and money to his campus. Though the university had no alumni until 1952, groups of "foster alumni" sprang up in dozens of cities across the U.S., gave to the new university as generously as if it had been their own alma mater. Gradually the faculty grew to 160, the student body to 1,070, the annual budget to nearly $3,000,000. Around the great castle ultramodern buildings arose, including three separate chapels for Jews, Roman Catholics and Protestants...
...directly into cervical cancers, cause the tumor to shrink and arrest the bleeding which troubled the patients. But they had no effect on the course of the disease: cancer cells on the edges of the tumor mass continued to proliferate and soon killed the patient. But when the researchers grew human-type cancers in rats, they found that successive generations of the virus developed an increasing ability to kill cancer cells. Next step: to test the selectively bred viruses in human subjects, to see whether they have more lasting tumor-destroying powers...
Born in Russia, Shahn emigrated to this country when he was eight. He grew up in Brooklyn, which provided a background for his painting and nurtured his social concern. During his varied career he has worked as a lithographer's apprentice, an assistant to Diego Rivera, a photographer for the government, a "commercial" artist, a union propagandist, and just as a simple artist concerned with people and the changing human situation...