Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...South Carolina schoolteacher's idea: why not plant acorns from Dumbarton Oaks in schoolyards across the U.S., to grow into trees of international good will? The National Education Association, all hot for it, rounded up teams of Boy Scouts to cover Dumbarton's grounds once a week...
...Teeth grow from tiny buds (tooth germs) which are present in the gums at birth. Drs. Harry H. Shapiro of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Bernice L. Maclean of Hunter College removed some buds from week-old kittens, transplanted them to the mouths of other kittens and full-grown cats. Result (as reported in the Journal of Dental Research) : all the buds grew into full-size teeth. Eventually, said Dr. Shapiro last week, it may be possible to take a tooth bud from a child whose second teeth are obviously going to be crowded...
...North Platte, Neb. There Bill Jeffers was born, in a tiny clapboard house that was usually crowded with railroad men, always swirled with argument (when all other topics were exhausted, they argued on ways & means of freeing Ireland). It was inevitable that Bill Jeffers should grow up to be 1) belligerent, 2) a railroad...
Clothes are so important that if you don't dress right (i.e., like everybody else) you "might as well be dead!" She might far better be dead, of course, than unpopular with other girls. She is "not in much of a hurry to grow up," yet essentially she is serious-minded. The teen-agers who give expert advice to the psychologists also advised the producers of this issue of MARCH...
...that governs the relations subsisting between human beings and nature." He never found the Law, but he never stopped searching. Until 1914, when he died of pneumonia at 76, John Muir traveled up & down America's wonderful wilderness, later toured the whole outdoor world. Watching him grow restless after seven years in the confines of civilization, his understanding wife packed him off again to his mountain wanderings. His books & magazine articles won him admirers among the great and famous (Teddy Roosevelt ditched a political banquet to talk...