Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Utility. Dr. Sheldon declares that though people may put on or lose weight as they grow older, their basic physique types do not change. Thus weight tables which give "normal weights" against height and age, without regard to structural type, mean less than nothing. Example: A heavy woman of type 632 frets because she thinks she is 30 Ib. overweight, whereas she is actually 30 Ib. underweight for her type and ought to stop dieting at once...
...Wendell Willkie has been nominated. . . . I do not know Mr. Willkie, but the headline in one of the metropolitan papers yesterday said: 'Willkie aims at unity, defense and recovery.' ... In heaven's name, will anyone aim at anything else? Sometimes I wonder whether we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something...
...used to be thought that as the sun used up its fuel, it would grow colder & colder, that the end of life on earth would be a freeze-out. Dr. Gamow's own researches show that as the sun converts more & more hydrogen into energy, it must get continually hotter. Toward the end of its hydrogen supply, Gamow estimates, the sun's radiation will have increased a hundredfold. Thus a heat-death instead of a cold-death is threatened for earthlings...
...population of the earth to some distant planet. . . ." Even at the increasing rate of hydrogen consumption, the sun has enough left for ten billion years. Thus it has five-sixths of its life to live as a normal star. But when the hydrogen is gone at last, it will grow cooler, collapse into an enormously dense, feebly shining dwarf star, with its fragments of ruined atoms crushed tightly together. Such dense dwarf stars are already known to astronomers; one of them is the dim companion of bright Sirius...
...Prentis Jr. was glad he had a six to nine months' stock on hand. This would not go far if his next cork supply had to come from this hemisphere, since cork trees take 40 years to mature. But Portugal and Spain, where 70% of the cork trees grow, still have Atlantic ports open to U. S. ships...