Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Flaying the "empty phrases and wheedling" of some German Communist leaders, Comrade Trotsky summoned the Red rank & file to sweep "Hitler dust" out of Germany by yet more furious efforts. Lest German Communists grow discouraged and be taken in by the pre tensions of Enemy Hitler who already talks as if he were sure to become Ger man Chancellor. Exile Trotsky warned: "In every war the enemy tries to exaggerate its strength to impress the enemy. Hitler is just as good a braggart as Napoleon was. but his pretensions will be come true only the minute that the proletariat takes...
...annual meeting. The donor wishes to aid younger men with cash, rather than honor older ones with kudos. Last week the $1,000 went to Carl Caskey Speidel, 38, associate professor of anatomy at the University of Virginia. He won it for inventing a way of seeing nerves grow in a live tadpole's tail. He clamped an embryonic frog under his microscope and indirectly illuminated the tail by a method called "dark field lighting." Thus over periods of weeks he was able to see that nerves branch out from the spinal cord and spread, like the roots and branches...
Died. Tyrone Power, 62, actor, of heart disease; in Hollywood, Calif. He emigrated to the U. S. from Great Britain at 17 to grow oranges in Florida, became leading man to Mrs. Leslie Carter, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Julia Marlowe...
...twins." Author Cuppy can jargon with the best of them: "The Gorilla could do with more brains. His corpus callosum is not very good but the hippocampus major is O. K. The hallux is fair." "The family life of the Baboon is known as hell on earth. The males grow meaner and stingier and the females fade at an early age. The children scream, stamp, roll on the ground and will not eat their Centipedes." "The average Penguin has the mind of an eight-year-old child but he gets his pic ture in the Sunday papers...
...rushes into existence. The child lives much more in a year than do his parents. Dr. Carrel mentioned tests which give precise indications of an individual's biological (not chronological) age. If a spickle of flesh is put in a certain kind of culture medium, the spickle will grow for a time. The time and speed of growth indicate the "residual energy" of that bit of flesh. The younger the individual, the faster and longer the growth. A similar test is how long a wound takes to heal. Young people heal more quickly than old. Dr. Pierre Le Comte...