Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Swift to its close ebbs out life's little day; Earth's joys grow dim, its glories pass away; Change and decay in all around I see; 0 Thou who changest not, abide with...
...publicize Navy Day, Rear Admiral Monroe Kelly, commandant of the Third Naval District, turned over his command for the day to James F. Rappaport, 14, of The Bronx. Settling back in the admiral's chair, young Rappaport announced: "When I grow up I want to be a lawyer...
...Greene's "laboratory" is a guinea pig's eye. Delicately, he plants various types of foreign tissue in the pigs' eyes. Some "take" and grow. Sometimes the transplanted tissue becomes cancerous. Sometimes it develops the characteristics of functioning organs. Cancer specialists, who used to be skeptical, have begun to take a lively interest in Dr. Greene's work. Last week the doctor talked about it before a distinguished audience at the American Cancer Society's annual meeting in Manhattan...
...drink is no different from the man on the other side of the fire door when he first starts imbibing, Bates said. But once he begins, he withdraws into his social shell, and cannot put down his glass. Unless he is shown how to stop, his habit will grow worse as he gets older...
...Lilienthal was once the bogeyman of private power magnates. As chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, Lilienthal spoke soothing words in Detroit to free enterprisers. Reporting that commercially feasible atomic power was probably at least a decade off, Lilienthal added : "... This atomic industry can never flourish and grow and find its proper place . . . unless it sends its roots deep and wide into the . . . soil of competitive private industry." Suiting action to words, Lilienthal appointed seven industrialists as consultants on atomic power...