Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gayelord Hauser [TIME, Nov. 17] did not dream up the "organic" theory of gardening, which teaches that all animal and vegetable waste should be returned to the soil, in order to grow the most healthful and best-tasting produce. I am sure Mr. H. does not maintain that the carrot can tell the difference between decaying swifts and fertilizer from Swift...
Poor Neighbors. In spite of imaginative efforts to make the planets sound attractive, scientists consider earth's neighborhood rather slummy. But the space planners are optimistic. Colonists on the airless moon, they say. could erect Plexiglas domes and fill them with any atmosphere they liked. They could grow bumper crops in the unfailing sunlight, could extract metals and oxygen from the rocks. Arthur C. Clarke in The Explora, tion of Space argues that man might thrive under such conditions better than he does on earth...
When Bela Schick was still a boy in Hungary, German researchers tracked down the microbe which causes diphtheria, and isolated the poisonous secretion which makes a strange, strangling membrane grow across many a victim's throat. They got as far as developing a horse serum which could be used either as a preventive against the disease or as a remedy after it had struck. But so many people got sick from the serum itself that doctors hated to give it as a preventive unless they could be sure that it was really necessary. They needed a test to show...
...third president of the Pennsylvania Military College-the school his grandfather and his father ran before him. A rugged, grey-haired man who once, as a captain in the Pennsylvania National Guard Cavalry, set something of a record by riding 17 horses, Cossack-style, Hyatt has seen his campus grow from 150 to 600 cadets, has watched over every student from reveille to taps. Last week, as he stepped down, the PMC corps staged a full dress parade in his honor. "I thought to myself," said Colonel Hyatt, "this is the last time...
...John Piper is in an enviable spot. His paintings are pleasant enough to appeal to middlebrows but abstract enough to satisfy the critics and all but the most austere highbrows (who think his work "too pretty"). The result: his paintings are in brisk demand, and his reputation continues to grow. Last week 31 new Piper oils and watercolors were on view in London, and the public flocked...