Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because of the current teacher shortage, E.B.F. thinks that its influence will grow even greater. Last week it began to distribute a 162-session physics course by the University of California's Harvey White -the first full-length, high-school physics course ever put on film. The series is to be used not merely to supplement the work of the high-school teachers. It is primarily meant for an estimated 14,000 high schools that have no trained physics teacher at all. With other such projects in the works, E.B.F. may not only become more and more influential...
Three Years to Grow. Such welfare-state heresy started a sharp fisc fight. "The richer a man is the more he gets under this budget,'' cried Labor's Harold Wilson. "One of its principal virtues," answered the Tory Telegraph...
...Human cancer will grow in laboratory rats if they have been pretreated with cortisone or X rays. Dr. Helene W. Toolan left some rats untreated, planted human cancer tissue in them and a week later took blood and tissue specimens from the animals. Fresh pieces of cancer tissue were immersed in this material, then transplanted into pretreated rats. These implants failed to grow. The cancer had been neutralized by an immune mechanism in the blood of the first, untreated rats. ¶ Properdin, a chemical that occurs naturally in the blood, is one of the factors in immunity. Zymosan. a yeast...
...bright comet since 1910 (Halley's, not due to be seen again by earthlings until about 1984), but astronomers hate to make predictions about comets. Far from behaving like respectable members of the solar system, they are skittish and unpredictable. They wax and wane capriciously. Some of them grow magnificent tails; others...
...made up of small businesses-they account for some 4,000,000 of the 4,250,000 U.S. firms-Yet small business is in deep trouble. While big businesses are getting bigger and taking a fatter share of the market, small companies are shackled in their attempts to grow by heavy-and often discriminating-taxes. Wrote Florida's Democratic Senator George Smathers to President Eisenhower last week, inp eading for the creation of a Cabinet-ranking Secretary of Small Business: "Every single barometer indicates a general worsening of conditions for smaller firms. Time is running out for the small...