Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether altogether frigid or partly immature, ruthlessly self-centered Josephine Perry is interesting to watch in a play that begins like another romp about a junior miss up to junior mischief, only to grow steadily more sober in tone. As Josephine, Lois Smith has the right looks and essential right talent, but works with too few and too showy gestures. And the storytelling is often unflexed and even languid. But along with entertainment value in its lighter moments, The Young and Beautiful has shock value and a pinch of substance...
...H.A.A. now revels in its unchecked sway, but a day of reckoning shall come. For a breed of Harvardmen will grow up, never having tasted that curious elixir--the blend of fall air, football, and good scotch. When the new alumnus gets slowly soused of a Saturday afternoon, he will care not one whit whether Crimson is in triumph flashing. As interested alumni gradually become extinct, the Harvard farm system will dwindle. Within a decade the Red Beast will again be no more than a small pink rodent...
...humans grow older, the innermost layer (intima) of the arteries, ordinarily a thin, smooth membrane, tends to roughen and thicken in a process that may be compared to what happens when deposits of lime accumulate inside a water pipe. This change in the arterial wall is known generally as atherosclerosis...
...size of the affected artery and the speed and completeness of the occlusion. If the artery in which the clot forms is small enough, a person may live to old age unaware of the thrombosis. If the closing of the artery occurs slowly enough, nearby arteries may grow in size and in their capacity to carry blood, and send out new sub-arteries to the danger area...
...seems to me we should begin by recognizing realistically that we shall continue to grow, at least slowly, in the years ahead," he said, "as we have in the past, under the pressure of increased population. Also we should hope that there will come in time to be more colleges like Williams and Harvard...