Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...knows what makes the disease so hard to cure permanently. Parasitologists think it is because the malaria bug knows how to hide: even when the bloodstream has been cleared by an antimalarial drug, the organism may remain in body tissues, lying low for new attacks. If scientists could grow the parasite in a test tube and find out exactly what makes it tick, they would be well along toward wiping out malaria...
...many an adult Briton could bear-and it was too much for one W. Wright-Newsome. He took.his troubles, as Britons will, to the Times of London. Wrote he: "The BBC seems bent on turning the children into a new kind of drug addict. . . . The poor children grow more concerned from day to day about what Dick Barton . . . may do next than about their futures or the future of England. My neighbors confirm that when they turn [him] off . . . their children regard them as . . . tyrannic giants...
...commercials; the amount of each might differ, but the ingredients were the same. Patterson's mixture called for health hints and horoscopes, patterns and etiquette, advice for the lovelorn and tips on the horses-and compelling, habit-forming comics. Most of the strips that helped his lusty tabloid grow were named by him (Dick Tracy, Orphan Annie, Moon Muttins, etc.), often after a thoughtful thumbing of the telephone book. All the artists felt his sensitive, shrewd touch. From Caniff he wanted adventure, suspense, and pretty women...
...formed? It was known that reef-building corals did not thrive more than a few fathoms below the surface. Certainly the islands had not grown upward from the depths. The atolls, he concluded, must have been formed when islands sank, and the coral reefs fringing their shorelines continued to grow. "For as mountain after mountain, and island after island slowly sank beneath the water, fresh bases would be successively afforded for the growth of the corals...
...this way the particles grow at the expense of the separate atoms. They get bigger & bigger. Gradually they drift together. Part of the force which makes them concentrate, said Dr. Lyman Spitzer Jr. of Yale, is gravitational attraction between the particles. More important: the pressure which radiation from the surrounding stars exerts to pack them into a thick, globular swarm...