Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grateful that the foundations of freedom in our nation grow stronger with each passing year, giving hope to fettered peoples that they may walk as free men unafraid; that the yield of our soil and the production of our factories have been abundant, enriching our lives and enabling us to share our bounty with less fortunate ones in other lands; and that the forces of nature are being harnessed for peaceful purposes, bringing limitless possibilities of comfort and happiness both to ourselves and to future generations...
...human diseases, few produce more fantastic results than a cystic tumor of the ovary: as it fills with fluid, such a tumor may grow to monstrous proportions. The archives are inconclusive as to the biggest tumor ever recorded, but last week Dr. Dan H. Eames Jr. of La Marque, Texas achieved an unquestioned record of the size of a tumor removed intact...
Even more important than present dangers is the future of a House system which will in no way grows larger and more impersonal, and as the benefit from a college-wide center. As Harvard walls of college cohesion crumble into spheres of influence, the House must play an increased role as the focus of student activity. If Houses are to realize their full potential, the presence of college-wide social and organizational ganglions must be kept to a minimum. Otherwise, University associations wil grow into centers of prestige and activity, while Houses wither to sleeping quarters for the active...
This was partly true, for the days of moving from building to building were definitely over. But the School was quick to grow within its new structure over the next fifty years. The student body increased by 80 percent. New methods changed the techniques of medicine beyond many expert's wildest dreams, and these methods brought about a need for new types of equipment and special types of buildings. Most of all, time took its inevitable toll on the buildings...
...writer copies to suit her. Lowney moves him along to "skits." What about? "A bird, a dog. a boy. a tree." Out of these literary acorns, feels Lowney. giant novels may grow. "I mark them and I write ideas all along the margins where they could develop, where they could get a stream of consciousness." Her marginalia are often crisp ("This becomes idiotic") and sometimes to the point ("You say his uniform was clean. This is the first time I've seen anyone in this story with any clothes on"). Says Tesch: "Lowney really helped me. She went through...