Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once been rare, police seized 232 vagrants in Ueno Park. Some were children who lived by begging and stealing, spending the nights under piled debris. In a nation of fanatic workers, there would soon be 2,500,000 unemployed veterans of the home army alone. The figure would grow as soldiers were shipped home from overseas...
Taking advantage of this worry, FCC's go-getting new chairman, Paul Porter, last week had some tough words for the industry ("Radio Must Grow Up") in the October issue of American Magazine. Said Porter...
...Thimig), a genteel Englishman (Alan Napier), his sickly wife (Katherine Emery), their full-blown servant girl (Ellen Drew). For a while, with deliberate restraint, the movie is content to trail red herrings, tune up its infernal machinery and suggest perhaps a few too many moral and psychological implications. Tensions grow as the characters develop a pervasive fear of death...
Would you like to know the exact lo cation of Heaven? What its inhabitants look like, their occupation, and whether the children grow up? These and other questions will be answered in a clear and simple way in a lecture given in Advent House Chapel, on Friday night. ... A Technicolor filmstrip will follow the lecture. (Advt...
Another head-shape fallacy was exploded last week by the University of Illinois dental school. Doctors have long supposed that an individual's head shape changes considerably as he grows up. But Illinois X-ray studies showed that while an infant's head bones and bumps grow bigger, their relative proportions remain virtually unchanged throughout life. Thus, from an X-ray photograph of a newborn infant's head, it is possible to sketch approximately how he will look as an adult...