Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEREAS: . . . vegetable love should grow Vaster than empires, and more slow--Andrew Marvell...
...species of mushrooms that grow in France, 39 are poisonous. This slight but real possibility of toxic consequence has little effect on the millions of Frenchmen who cannot resist aller aux champignons-tramping into the woods for mushrooms when the delicacies sprout, with particular abundance, during the first turning of the leaves. Last week, thanks to a wretchedly wet summer, the Gallic countryside was laden with a bumper crop-and some 45 persons were dead of mushroom poisoning. Countless others lay ill at home or in hospitals...
Thornton believes that atomic energy will be used to melt icecaps, explore space, turn the wheels of industry, and even change the weather so that citrus trees can grow in Central Park and the smog problem in Los Angeles can be solved. Newspapers and magazines will be transmitted by radio and either stored on tape or printed on receivers right in the living room. Pocket-sized communications devices will keep everyone in instant touch, and physical ailments will be diagnosed by computer and cured in many cases by replacing worn-out parts with factory-made ones. Money may be eliminated...
Channel 37 is only one of 68 new channels which are being opened up to TV. The U.S. now guarantees only the 21-centimeter line for the exclusive use of radio astronomy; it is conceivable that if the communication industries continue to grow this frequency will be the only radio "window" left to the scientist...
After each concert came cheering and a crush of autograph seekers. "I guess I signed a thousand autographs," Gerald Grow said...