Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATO grow in might...
...reaction is recent, caused in part by the miles of glass facades that have resulted from Mies's approach in the hands of less talented practitioners. Says Architect Philip Johnson, a onetime Mies collaborator: "Mies is such a genius. But I grow old and bored." Eero Saarinen quietly insists: "There does not have to be as much glass as Mies says." Says Edward D. Stone: "I am beginning to long for a feeling of permanence and monumentality." To all of this, Mies rumbles: "They say they are bored with my objectivity. Well, I am bored with their subjectivity...
...League standards extends down to prep schools and the better public schools. "We would like to have an entrance examination," says Mr. Hopkinson at Boston Latin, "but we have to consider anyone who has a B average in grammar school." Private schools become more selective as their numbers grow. Scholarships aim toward providing economic and geographical diversity, as well as financial aid. Some schools, like Exeter, do not wait for outstanding boys to apply, but actively seek them. In Iowa, for instance, Exeter finds out the names of outstanding newsboys from the Des Moines Register and Tribune and encourages them...
...only packet of sulfa powder into the ugly leg wound. The pair learn each other's names-Alvin and Kimura. When Alvin moons about his girl in Sedalia, Mo., Kimura mimes the death of his wife in an air raid. In such scenes, Actor Hayakawa makes Kimura grow wordlessly in stature and sympathy. Actor Piazza cannot prevent poor, blathering Alvin from being a bore, but he does capture the pathos of his homesickness...
...growth was given to that side, prayer against growth to the other. Result: "Sixteen sturdy little seedlings greeted us on the positive side. On the negative side there was but one." Against that stubborn seedling the experimenters directed "several brief 'bursts' of negation-strong mental commands to grow no more . . . and it grew no more. The top of it darkened and withered and it remained in the stunted, non-growing condition. No more seedlings appeared on the negated side, though we held the experiment open for 20 days before digging, photographing and measuring each seed. Later...