Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Borne along on the tide of German victory in Holland, swelling ever larger as the marching hordes spread and grow, the spirit of intervention is upon us. "The Allies are faltering," it cries. "America must do something." Well, what shall we do? What...
With this victory fresh in mind, the organization entered upon a period of development and expansion. In 1886 it finally found it necessary to take its own quarters--renting a location at 11 West 22nd Street. The club continued to grow with rapidity and the quarters soon proved inadequate, necessitating a significant and far-reaching step...
Shriveled Sponge. "A narrative of the dilapidation of the master organ of life is lugubrious and depressing," said Dr. Kennedy. "All cells in the body can multiply and reproduce with the exception of those in the nervous system." These cells "are laid down in the embryonic life and grow with the individual until he reaches maturity." After that they never grow again, "never reproduce themselves...
...brain of 60 or 70 years "is characterized by an amazing reduction in mass." It shrinks from its skull casing like a dry sponge in a wooden box. The membranes which enfold it, in youth tough as Cellophane, grow delicate as tissue paper. Often they are patterned with small plaques of bone. Brain convolutions shrivel, the valleys growing wider than the hills. Strangely enough, said Dr. Kennedy, only the cerebral cortex, seat of intelligence, grows wrinkled and old. Other more primitive brain structures remain "almost normal." The cells of the cortex, usually some 14 billion, "are reduced in number . . . many...
Because of the number and frequency of Hsi's seductions, they tend to grow somewhat wearisome. More diverting is the spirited account of Hsi's relations with his six wives. They comprise an amazing harem, a-seethe with complex jealousies and intrigues which mostly originate with a voluptuous, canny beauty named Gold Lotus, who knows how to lead Hsi around by the nose...