Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Traveling Lady (by Horton Foote) is a small-sized drama by a "promising" playwright (The Chase, The Trip to Bountiful) who continues to fumble. But it raises to stardom a very gifted young actress who continues to grow. Kim Stanley (The Chase, Picnic) plays a bewildered, hard-beset young mother, not very bright but full of courage, married to a no-good weakling just out of jail and soon heading back to it. She plays the part with force and feeling and an eloquently detailed sense of character, and it's a pity that she is stranded...
...quietly away from the piano. Brubeck seems to cut his ties with the tempo and tears off on a remote pulse of his own. He grabs huge fistfuls of notes, builds them into a sonata-size movement that ignores the divisions of the stock 32-bar chorus. The notes grow progressively more dissonant. Brubeck's head weaves in a wide arc. His fingers seem to take on a life of their own. At this point, both musicians and laymen in the audience are apt to wonder whether Brubeck will ever be able to make it back to home base...
...their discovery of the ability of the poliomyelitis virus to grow in cultures of different tissues, as the citation dryly put it, three U.S. scientists last week won the coveted 1954 Nobel Prize ($36,000) for medicine. They were Harvard's famed Virologist John Franklin Enders, 57 (no M.D. but a Ph.D. in bacteriology and immunology), and two who had worked with him on the project: Dr. Thomas H. Weller, 39, of the Harvard School of Public Health and Dr. Frederick C. Robbins, 38, now of Cleveland's Western Reserve Medical School...
...incident in a life dedicated to battle against the minutest and most insidious of man's microbial enemies, the viruses. To find better ways of combating such children's diseases as mumps, measles, chicken pox and polio, it was necessary first to find better ways of growing the offending viruses in the test tube. The polio virus was an especially bad actor: it seemed willing to grow only in brain or nerve tissue of men or monkeys, and any vaccine prepared from such a growth would be potentially deadly...
Speaking at the annual dinner of the Public Education Association is New York City. Pusey stated that teachers "should be encouraged in all their experience to grow as persons, rather than to become educational technicians...