Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chemical ways. Their method was simple, too. They irradiated mold with X rays to induce mutations. Then they gathered spores formed by sexual reproduction and laid them out on a sheet of agar jelly containing the minimum nutrients that natural wild mold requires. Some of the spores sprouted and grew normally, showing that they had not been mutated in any obvious way. Some were dead, perhaps mutated too much...
Timber Line. Vermont-born Llewellyn Sherman Adams grew up in the stern standards of rural New England, and he is stubborn, frugal and contradictory as only a rural Yankee can be. His parents were divorced after they moved to Providence, when Sherm was a boy, and he lived mostly with his mother, but he spent his summers in Vermont under the tutelage of his grandfather. He scratched through four years at Dartmouth, studying economics, singing (basso) in the glee club, hiking the hills and mountains of the north country. For 18 years Adams worked for a lumber company in Lincoln...
...prosperous watchcase manufacturer, Swope grew up in St. Louis, passed up college to get a look at Europe, came back to the U.S. to bounce from Pulitzer's St. Louis Post-Dispatch to the Chicago Tribune to the New York Herald before settling down in 1909 as a reporter for the World. There he soon became one of the best reporters in a Manhattan galaxy of byliners that included Irvin Cobb. Frank Ward O'Malley and Richard Harding Davis. Herbert Swope's unique asset: overwhelming personal charm. Said an envious New York Telegraph reporter: "He finds...
...long winter of weight lifting and wind sprints, Christine brightened Wimbledon's No. 1 court with the finest tennis of her short career. Her powerful forehand was unbeatable, her sliced backhand was too cute for Althea to handle, her serve had a vicious hop. And as her confidence grew, her shots sharpened. She ran Althea off the court, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4. It was the decisive match; Christine and her teammates forthwith walked off with the Wightman Cup (4-3) for the first time in 28 years...
...most moving passages, as the exhausted troops climb slowly up one more mountain, there suddenly rises from the front rank a tremendous cry. "Xenophon, hearing this, thought that more enemies were attacking in front; for some were following behind them from the burning countryside . . . But when the shouts grew louder and nearer, as each group came up it went pelting along to the shouting men in front, and the shouting was louder and louder as the crowds increased. Xenophon mounted his horse, and took Lycios with his horsemen, and galloped to bring help. Soon they heard the soldiers shouting...