Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detailing the life & works of Convict Jimmy Hines, 62, with data gathered from Hines's family, friends, neighbors, District Attorney's office and Hines himself, the report gave ordinary citizens who often damn but seldom understand political bosses, a first-rate picture of how such bosses grow, what makes them tick, how they can go wrong. Hines highlights and shadows...
...boasted he could live in the wilds alone, unaided save by knife and gun. He slept in caves and shelters which he called "forts." He let his hair grow to his shoulders, his beard to his bulging chest. He could throw a baseball in the air and put four rifle bullets into it before it fell. Eight years ago, when he was 18, he accidentally shot himself in the chest. The bullet tore through his body but so tough was Earl Durand that he was out hunting again in a fortnight. He was never a bad boy, except once when...
...great work on respiration, published in 1916, was on the mechanism of gas exchange (carbon dioxide for oxygen) in lungs. Last week he pointed out that animals make structural adaptations to the available oxygen supply as to any other environmental circumstance. Frogs and toads living in oxygen-deficient waters grow abnormally large, those in oxygen-abundant waters abnormally small. South American lungfish develop extra gills when they go down to guard eggs on the oxygen-deficient bottom. Whales when diving supply oxygen only to their brains and their heartbeats fall from about So per minute to four or five...
Three Smart Girls Grow Up (Universal). Deanna Durbin, now 17, has for two years been practically the sole support of Universal's stockholders. In this smooth, ingratiating, family comedy she discharges her responsibilities handsomely with renderings of La Capinera, Because, Invitation to the Dance, The Last Rose of Summer...
...claims 35,000, concedes that no more than 3,000 can pay dues at any one time. To figures like these, and to troubles like S. T. F. U.'s, A. F. of L. points as evidence that C. I. 0. should grow up and heal its sores before it tries to make peace on its own terms...