Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idea for the hospital grew out of a trip Dubinsky made to Israel last June. In Beersheba he was shocked to learn that the city (pop. 22,000) has no hospital, and that whenever a Beersheban needs hospital care he must travel nearly 50 miles to Rehovot, which is more than a quarter of the way to Dan at the other end of the country. Dubinsky came home determined to do something...
Some 6,000 candidates, backed by the clanking machinery of 18 parties, competed for 596 seats in the National Assembly. * The cascade of campaign rallies grew to at least 3,000 a day. Public interest was so high that registration was 1,200,000 above past records...
Just as Uncle Bob planned, Bill grew up to be a southpaw. But baseball was forgotten when the family moved to Oakland, Calif. Like any other youngster. Bill tried to imitate his older brother, who was a flashy, high-school basketball player. On the court Bill was ambidextrous, but he was mostly Pogo-stick legs and gawky elbows, too awkward to make the regular team until his senior year...
...method of the bacteriologists. He reports in Science that he sprouted 100 bu. of oats (about 45 million grains), then doused the sprouted seeds with the toxin (poisonous secretion) of the Helminthosporium fungus, and later with the fungus itself. Out of the 45 million, 973 seedlings survived and grew. Thirty days later they were treated with all the other oat diseases, and 471 survived the second ordeal...
Everywhere that industry grew, the managers studied how to pull all the far-flung parts together and make them work more efficiently-so that, in effect, shareholders, executives and workmen would get increasing return from an hour's productive work. And what they studied hardest was the amazing efficiency of General Motors and how it had achieved...