Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still controversial sex-hormone regimen has played the biggest part in achieving this result. Explains Dr. Kountz: "The layman equates these hormones with sex, but equally important is the part they play in nutrition and the ability of the body to use the food it gets. As we grow old, if we don't have a proper hormone balance, the body burns up its own protein. We lose carbohydrates, fat and minerals as well. Even brain tissue is absorbed. We found that old people suffered this loss even if they were eating properly. Then we found out why-they...
...inveterate gambler. I got him a job with a stock and bond company, and it made him a young man again. In four years he made $200,000. Now he's 93 and retired in Florida. He says his biggest regret is that he didn't grow old sooner...
...specialists in medicine for the aging and aged may well grow old themselves in the struggle to carry out their motto: "To add life to years, not just years to life...
...hardheaded businessmen, Territory Rice's plans might sound overoptimistic. U.S. ricemen call the 2? per Ib. figure "unrealistic," strongly doubt that Chase can grow, mill and ship rice for anything like that price, also point out that there is no world rice shortage; many rice-exporting nations have actually had surpluses since 1954. Nevertheless, Chase & Co. are convinced that there is an enormous, untapped market for rice in such lands as India, Ceylon, Malaya, Borneo, Indonesia, Japan, even China. While there may be a technical surplus, shipping costs from many exporting nations are so high that millions of consumers...
...transformed the two schools into the flourishing Illinois Institute of Technology. Enrollments soared to 7,000, and the campus grew from seven acres to 85. In 1951 Heald moved to N.Y.U., the largest (37,064 students) private university in the U.S., proved that he could make even the biggest grow. He put up a new medical science building, a student center, a residence hall, a military science center, has three additional buildings under construction...