Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ability to make two drachmas grow where one grew before seems to have sputtered out. An economist in Athens last week declared that the only new business enterprise he had heard of was a bar opened by a bartender who had quarreled with his partner...
...People grow used to one race's normal body odor and do not notice it. But the odor of one race is sometimes strange and objectionable to another race. Professor Arnold J. Toynbee, in A Study of History, tells of a dainty English lady in South Africa who hired Kaffir servants. One little black girl fainted repeatedly in the lady's presence. The inexperienced child was unaccustomed to the shocking smell of white people...
...with the whole U.S. atmosphere, but it has its eye on hailstorms, which do enormous damage to crops in certain parts of the country. Hail is formed when raindrops are sucked into rising currents in a thundercloud. They freeze high in the air, collide with supercooled water droplets, and grow into crop-slashing hailstones. Dr. Irving Langmuir proposes to charge the thunder-threatening air with silver iodide particles. Sucked up into the cloud, they will turn the supercooled droplets into snow before they can build up hailstones...
...been more willing to accept this pressure than they have been to stand firm now for some concrete planning that would actually put strength into the tutorial system. And lastly, the issue of tutorial has been allowed to slip from view: a highly dangerous development if students are to grow aware of what they are losing...
...rally behind this Japanese war, he claims, they should have been allowed to win a peace that held promise. But Chiang's war meant conscription into an army that was corrupted from its headquarters to its provincial encampments, and this war meant payment of taxes to landlords who would grow fat as they had in Chinese conflicts since the ancient dynasties. Most of all, if the Chinese people were to rally to this fight, they had to be led by a program of land reform as well as by the personality of the Generalissimo, by a guarantee of release from...