Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious question. "I was most impressed with the way the natives held themselves." The way they what? "Held themselves. It's my theory that the English don't hold themselves up so well because of their climate, constantly walking into the wind and so forth, whereas the Burmese grow up towards the sun. You know, Memorial Church reminds me somehow of Burma." I suggested she meant Memorial Hall. It could be Burmese. "No, Memorial Church, with all its whiteness, struck me that way when I first...
...Franklin Fenenga, archeologist of the University of California (where the cyclotrons grow biggest), has a "rainmaking bag" that once belonged to a 103-year-old Indian medicine man. The bag contains a beaver tail, snapdragon seeds, some eagle down, a fossil fish vertebra, various kinds of pebbles, minerals and other dependable rainmakers. According to a report in the New York Times last week, Dr. Fenenga recently used his bag on Kern County, where there had been no rain for eight months...
...tipsy hack driver, without a quarter in his pocket, kept raising the bidding until it reached $100,000. Actually, 75 seconds after the bidding opened, Australian Industrialist W. J. Smith got the horse for about $88,000. Two months later, Shannon headed for fabled California, where $100,000 purses grow on bushes...
...largely responsible for podiatry's increasingly respectable status is Manhattan's Dr. Maurice J. Lewi (rhymes with Dewey). Dr. Lewi, who celebrated his birthday last week by blowing out all 91 candles ( none to grow on) with one lusty puff, has been thinking about foot troubles for 72 years...
...tells the story of an American family living in Italy. David Meredith is a writer whose books sparkle but lack proportion; his children, left to grow wild like unclipped weeds, are something like his books. There is Frances, an intense, mixed-up young girl; Louis, who flirts with Fascism out of boredom and an ignorance of life that parades as cynicism. Even four-year-old Leonora is spoiled...