Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sexually immature female mouse injected with a concentrate of the urine of pregnancy will in four days begin to produce eggs precisely as if she were full grown. The seminal vesicles of an immature male mouse similarly treated will grow large. This Aschheim-Zondek test for pregnancy is delicate and practically infallible...
Each plant was nearly two feet high and bore flowers almost two inches in diameter. Most of the 300 species of clover have triple leaves, like the shamrock. There are "lucky" four-leaf freaks, and rare five- and seven-leaf varieties. The Thompson specimens have seven leaves normally, which grow on long, eight-inch stems...
...iodine in the system. Dr. David Marine proved this by feeding Akron school children iodine twice a year from 1916 to 1919 and practically eliminating goiter from that bedeviled community. Most specialists work on the assumption that, for deficiency of iodine, the starved thyroid must work extra hard and grow bigger. On the other hand. Colonel Robert McCarrison from evidence he gathered in the Punjab is certain that germs in drinking water indirectly cause goiter. Iodine in drink or food, he believes, kills such germs in the intestines...
...Paul's Cathedral Choir School he went to a high stool in the London office of Anglo-American Oil Co., spent 18 years there ploughing barren columns of figures. To overcome his environment and catch his Muse's eye, young de la Mare let his black hair grow long and wavy, attired himself according to his idea of the Latin Quarter. And while he kept others' books he wrote three of his own: Songs of Childhood (under a pseudonym, "Walter Ramal"), Poems (1906). Henry Brocken, his first novel. Scholarly Herbert Asquith being Prime Minister, Bookkeeper...
...addition to its services in curbing malaria, the School has checkmated phylloxera, destroyer of countless vineyards, by the importation from California of resistant grape stock on which native vines have been grafted to grow a variety immune to the blight...