Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...neighbor universities could share their facilities and faculties, both might grow faster. This obvious idea first cropped up at a dinner club organized a few years ago by Duke and North Carolina professors. Soon the professors were holding joint seminars, lecturing to each other's classes. In 1933 President Few and President Frank Porter Graham of North Carolina appointed a joint committee to systematize the cooperation...
...smelling area of the nose grows most before the child is six months old. In early childhood the middle part of the nose grows most. In later childhood the lower part of the nose unfolds and grows until about adolescence. The faces of most snub-nosed grown-ups simply froze prematurely. Many of them, when children, just lacked proper food to grow...
...Todd finds that "the adult form of mankind is the outcome of growth enhanced, dwarfed, warped or mutilated by the adventures of life." Heredity is important, and so is environment, especially nutrition. Undernourishment and malnourishment apparently do not affect heights to which children grow. But they very plainly keep children from becoming as broad and deep-chested and as bigheaded as they should...
...heads of boys and girls grow at the same rate from the nose up. But "it is characteristic of anthropoids and man that bodily growth in the female practically ceases at puberty, whereas, in the male, it continues for several years." Therefore the upper lips and jaws of boys have time to lengthen, while girls more often remain "baby faced...
...until he shoots her. Exit Mellors. Lady Chatterley and her child take refuge with Sylvius, a supersensible Frenchman, half philosopher, half farmer. Lady Chatterley is tired of the passionate daily diet she has had with Mellors and Sylvius is much too cool a character to catch fire. But they grow fond of each other, in a sensible and subdued way, finally get married, look forward to a muted future of reasonable content...