Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was a good story on cougar (TIME, Feb. 21), but I can't help wondering where your writers would turn to substantiate the statement that the big cats "sometimes [grow] to nine or ten feet from gorging on deer," or on anything else. . . . There may be something in some local deer that makes cougar bigger in some areas of the country. I don't know. I do know that the biggest "lion" yet killed by a family of brothers who hunt them professionally in three southwestern states and northern Mexico was several inches under eight feet long...
...leading advertising media today only three were in business when TIME began. And of the 13 other magazines which started publication the same year only two remain. So I think every one of us at TIME is deeply conscious on this 21st birthday that any magazine must change and grow with its times to survive...
Such shenanigans occurred while Canadians, viewing the legislative crisis in the U.S. (see p. 77), flattered themselves that their system is superior to the U.S. form of government. On Parliament Hill, shrewd observers noted that as tempers grow shorter & shorter an election comes nearer & nearer...
...California Studios, will rent more space as needed. The new corporation plans to make some 20 films, has no idea through whom they will be released, what the first one will be, who will star, or when production will start. The plan is to begin modestly, and grow great slowly...
...Rhymes with idle. Literally "hair-nest," so called because hairs grow inside the cyst. A pi lonidal cyst is supposed to result from imperfect fusion of the two halves of a body in fetal life...