Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from scorning the bitch goddess, (the five writers) grew up on the success myth and in their maturity accepted it as the key to the meaning of American life. The society which was portrayed in their society was not one which was split into two warring camps, or what you will, but a society which, as William James has said, exclusively worshipped a common deity, which was locked in the struggle to get ahead, not separated between opposing ideals...
...Crompton mule, the spinning jenny), were the first to use steam to drive them. But the price of industrial precocity, in an age that was unprepared for it, was paid by the people of Lancashire. In Lancashire's "dark, satanic mills" children labored twelve hours a day, women grew old at 30. Religion was their chief succor. The Methodist revival burned bright in the Lancashire mill towns, and its influence provided Britain's Labor Party, one of whose strongholds is South Lancashire, with a strain of Biblical humanism that tempers the doctrinaire Socialism of its Marxist intellectuals. South...
...Sydney W. Britton of the University of Virginia kept chimpanzees around the house. He treated them well and grew quite fond of them. His object: to learn from the chimps why their distant human cousins have big brains and walk on their hind legs. Last week, at a meeting of the National Society for Medical Research in San Francisco, he told his theory...
...made to stand upright for as much as eight hours by being put on a tilting table. The erect posture caused a greater flow of blood to the brain. Dr. Britton believes that when man's apelike, allfours ancestors started to walk on their hind legs, their brains grew bigger...
This thinks Dr. Britton, may be how it all started. When glaciers crept down a million years ago, chilling the climate, the ape men walked upright to keep their hands out of the snow. Their brains got more blood and grew bigger. Then the ape men, according to the Britton theory, started the long intellectual climb that turned them into...