Word: grow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Paradoxical for an advertising agent whose business it is to make all things interesting was Mr. Barton's approving quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson: "History will continually grow less interesting...
...becomes preferable to write of a svelte and charming woman whom one does not hesitate to call, in homage, "Queen Kate." She, Frau Gustav Stresemann, was Fraeulein Kate Kleeseld. Her father was one of the great industrialists, including Hugo Stinnes, in whose service Gustav Stresemann began to grow great...
...prate about the sanctity of the 18th Amendment. Last week's dark plaintiffs in Texas will not have time before November to carry their cases to the U. S. Supreme Court. But predictions were made that when the appeals are heard, the South's constitutional dilemma will grow more acute than it has been for a generation...
...Murphy and his colleague Dr. Francis Peyton Rous produced tumors in young healthy chickens. From these tumors they made extracts; inoculated more healthy chicks; produced more tumors. Always the new tumor had all the characteristics of the tumor from which the extract was prepared. Extract from one species would grow only in the same, or occasionally in a closely related, species. This seemed scarcely the work of a microbe; much more closely did it resemble the activity of a ferment or enzyme like the bacteriophage (TIME, April...
Plants have nothing to do but eat and grow, yet to them has been given a synthetic food substitute. A can of water, a food pill, and care will make roses bloom at Christmas if started in September. The cuttings are placed in the water, the pill added, the water kept up to the mark, and in a few weeks rootlets appear; in a few months, roses. Sweetpeas, phlox, snapdragons, asters, other annuals respond to slightly different treatment...