Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the trio, under the direction of Enders, had done was select a well-known method of cultivating chicken pox viruses and apply that method to isolating and growing the polio virus. But they had made one important change over previous attempts to grow the virus in a test-tube. It was what Zinsser would have called that last "step across to accomplished discovery." Unlike their predecessors, they had used human skin tissue-instead of nerve tissue-on which to grow the disease. Original as their final step may have been, the three associates regard their success...
...leave space for installing experimental animals. The two then set to work on experiments to cultivate the mumps and inbuenza viruses with which Enders had worked before the War. While in the process of working on these attempts at cultivation, the two decided to try to isolate and grow the polio virus...
They also knew that if they could grow the polio virus in sufficient quantities, it could be neutralized with formaldehyde, and used to produced antibodies--which would combat any polio germs in an inoculated person...
...course of his study the student should mature rapidly. Many men grow up fast in graduate school, gaining poise and self confidence. The college graduate lacking maturity and allied characteristics upon entry into business will come along slowly into business. As an executive commented to me recently, "We have a young Phi Beta just out of college in our bank. He is a big gangly kid. Unless he develops on the job much faster than I expect, it will be quite a while before we can have him represent the bank with important customers...
...flippancy and slightly cheapens Skulnik's part, as well as the play as a whole. But this defect just puts The Flowering Peach a degree below superlative, it doesn't destroy its advanced merit. Berta Gerson, as Noah's wife, almost matches Skulnik's expertness, and Mario Alcalde should grow into a top-flight actor. Janice Rule is awfuly pretty, if slightly monotonous in her interpretation, and both Martin Ritt and Leon Janney enter into Odets' idea of the Flood as a human parable as sons Shem...