Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forces which were prompted such a Lampoon in 1920 grew weaker in many ways as the decade were on. The developments of the twenties and their results in the thirties can be seen by looking at the history of Granville Hicks...
...murdered chil dren. He had lectured in a church changed into a "Club of Godless Science" and learned that freedom is merely "perceived necessity." He was soon attracted to the secret police "as an interesting state institution." After the Chekists honored him with the title of "scientific consultant," he grew especially fond of a line from their song- "Do not trust your friends" (he thought then, "Is it not the wisdom of life itself...
...solution to the space problem is departmental growth. Departmental libraries grew up under Winsor when Gore Hall was overcrowded. Today, they exceed the main collection in size, and include 60 percent of today's acquisitions...
...monkeys, the test tube cultures, and finally the pure strain from Brunhilde the chimpanzee. Brunhilde's type of infantile paralysis marched along with Lansing's and Leon's. The Mahoney virus replaced Brunhilde's and the trio of Mahoney, Lansing, and Leon, or simply Types One, Two, and Three grew in kidney tissure cultures, died in formaldehyde baths, and entered blood streams as the Salk polio vaccine...
...three decades the great Fiat works at Turin, Italy's biggest single industrial establishment (automobiles, aircraft engines, refrigerators) has been a fortress of Communism in Italian labor. The first revolutionary factory councils at Fiat grew into the CGIL, the giant Communist-run labor federation. Neither Mussolini nor the Nazis were able to stamp out all the Red cells at the Fiat works. At World War II's end the Communist leaders in Turin emerged as resistance heroes, began throwing their weight around like a trampling herd of elephants. Year after year they elected an overwhelming majority...