Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...potato famine provided a dramatic opportunity for the first suggestion. The scientists offered the Indians fertilizer, bug killer and a better strain of potato seed. The "medicines for the soil," as Cruz desc-ibed them, grew potatoes four to eight times bigger than Vicos had been producing. "Kcmi alii, kemi alii," said Cruz-''Very good, very good...
...glimpses of the inalterable, unchanging and eternal are continually thwarted by his consciousness of these two elements. Rubin points out perceptively that Wolfe's attitude toward those rare and brief moments is closely related to Wordsworth's "intimations of immortality," and like Wordsworth, Wolfe found that as he grew older those moments came upon him less and less. Several times he closely echoes Wordsworth's "Whither is fled the visionary gleam?/Where is it now, the glory and the dream...
...Ironing Boards. Like Caltech. DuBridge also emerged out of an unlikely background. Born in Terre Haute. Ind., the son of a Y.M.C.A. physical-education instructor, he grew up in a succession of cities from Mount Vernon. Iowa to San Jose, Calif, to Sault Sainte Marie, Mich. Though Lee fished in Lake Superior and watched the ships pass through the locks, he was better known as that studious young fellow in knickers who was so often with a book. At one time, he tried to be a reporter ("but I was too scared to go up and ask the right people...
...months turned into years, the staff grew to 4,000, the final budget to $50 million, and the military men who came around to inspect rose from majors to colonels to generals. Among other devices, the lab produced the microwave early warning radar, the H2X that helped carry Dday, the SCR-584 for guiding fire against the buzz-bombs, and the ground control approach (G.C.A.) for landing aircraft. It revolutionized the relationship between government and science, set the pattern for the Manhattan Project...
Though there are glimpses of the many-mansioned world in which Cordelia grew up, the ponderous, plunging figure of the colonel dominates the book. "He was an elemental force," says his daughter. "At any time in his life one could point to him and say, 'There is a complete...