Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this week the situation had undoubtedly been improved. A vast road-and-railroad communications system had been built up, and it would grow & grow. But until the Allies had Antwerp, where locomotives, railroad cars and other heavy freight could be poured ashore, troops on the line would have to get used to shortages...
...leader. Camp Susupe's residents wear whatever clothing can be salvaged from captured supplies, eat from the Japs' rice, kelp and canned stores, and take what few food essentials the U.S. can spare. Recently families have been released during the daytime to cultivate green vegetables, which grow easily in Saipan's fertile ground...
Political Fears. Out of these economic facts grow political fears. Rumania is a country of social inequality, and its social system rests on shaky foundations. The present government rests on a coalition of four parties: Peasant, Liberals, Social Democratic, Communist. Communism is not strong in Rumania; the Communist Party claims only about 2,000 members. But the presence of the Red Army makes the Communists feel stronger, and they hold something like a whip hand in the Government, because they are able at any time to brand it as reactionary simply by withdrawing their support. What the Russian attitude toward...
Boys have a 25% higher prenatal and infant death rate, a five-year shorter life expectancy. And although more boys than girls are conceived, fewer boys grow to maturity. Result: the U.S. is approaching the European condition of a large surplus of females over males-in 1930 there were 1,125,000 more white men than women in the U.S.; today there are 331,000 more women. Among Negroes, the "relative surplus of women is even larger...
Sometimes nerves, like pollarded willows or clipped adenoids, will spread and grow after pruning. The growth rate may be an eighth of an inch a day, or even faster. This fact has been the basis of infantile-paralysis treatments by Lieut. Commander Harvey Ellsworth Billig, Jr. and Physiologist Anthonie Van Harreveld of the California Institute of Technology...