Word: grow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller Institute provided a generally acceptable explanation and description of cancer cells. Those malignant cells, he has found, do not grow faster than normal cells. Nor do they have more growth energy. Nor are they necessarily diseased. They do, however, differ from normal cells in their physiological properties. Chief difference is the fact that they use nitrogen. The nitrogen they get from proteins or protein-split products. And of those the body has an unlimited store. That is why cancer cells can multiply (not grow in size) so rapidly...
...Swimming over it, the male fertilizes the eggs. Then both lose interest in their family, for the founding of which they have traveled miles up the river. Covering the eggs with sand both male and female go off and die. Some fortunate few struggle back to the ocean to grow sleek and begin the cycle over again next year.* Many an Alaskan salmon, however, is leaping this April-May not into a waterfall but into round tin cans, neatly sealed and labeled. These round cans, each of them containing one pound of salmon flesh, are filled in 135 canneries...
...students has long been recognized as one of the most broadening influences which can be brought to bear on men in their undergraduate years. There are already a number of endowments for Englishmen, notably the Common-wealth Scholarships, and the lead taken by the Holtzer Fellowship Fund will undoubtedly grow until the continental countries are as well represented...
...each man, woman, child and babe in the Reich is faced with a reparations debt of $466. Even in the U. S. there are babes to whom $466 is quite a pot of money. Still, to a really potent babe (born yesterday and with 58 years in which to grow up paying on the installment plan), even $466 or 1,957 gold marks may not seem onerous. Certainly nothing plaintive was said last week by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, President of the Reichsbank and chief of the German delegation at Paris. Emerging from the secret session at which...
...third now?Foch, Bishop Brent, Herrick. We grow old. A great man. I knew him as Governor of Ohio years ago. A great Ambassador...