Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Employing a symbolism that is perhaps too ambitious, Friesen reads into the life of Peter Franzman the existence not only of all Americans but of all mankind, the intense development of the egocentric idealist struggling mightily to grow his splendid wings only to discover that life is a prison, a prison with walls of glass against which all wings must batter. And there is no consolation even in the discovery of the real beauty of history, namely, that mankind's courage is just this ability to keep battering, battering futilely and eternally hopelessly...
...People grow bald because follicles from which hair grows die or become stunted. A dead follicle can never be revived. A stunted one may be. Rarely does a scalp get so fouled with germs or fungus that follicles die and hair falls out. Despite hair tonic advertisements, dandruff, per se, does not cause baldness...
...better way to overcome baldness was advanced last week from a more authentic source when Dr. André Alexis Cueto of Cincinnati offered the medical profession a machine to grow hair on heads where hair follicles are not altogether dead. The machine consists of a hood which fits over the scalp. By means of an air pump Dr. Cueto creates an alternate vacuum and pressure upon the scalp. This exercises the capillaries of the scalp, brings revivifying blood to the follicles. On 150 heads which were as bald as the sole of his foot Dr. Cueto last week asserted...
...estimated, got $1,000. In 1891, Dr. Naismith hoped he had dis covered a pastime which would supply Y. M. C. A. boys with healthy exercise without encouraging roughness or bad tem per. Main feature of its extraordinary growth has been the tendency of basket ball to grow more violent every year. The winter's noisiest basketball row broke last week. Undefeated in 20 games, New York University's team of one Swede, one Irishman and eight Jews lost to Georgetown, 36-10-34. Aftermath was a sizzling editorial in one of N. Y. U.'s four...
...very sure when he had learnt; and he wanted to learn everything!" When his mates called him "Johnny Chinaman" he took it in good part, said nothing, plugged ahead. After two years in England Togo got back to Japan to find that his superiors had let no barnacles grow on their keels, either. Before he was 40, Togo was captain in an up-&-coming navy. In the Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) it was Togo who fired the salvo that was Japan's declaration of war. But the first incident that got him international headlines was not pretty...