Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...general assertion that "there can be no just criticism of a political leader...without full reference to the political circumstances." This is really Hughes's theme: he says of the "open and receptive" George Humphrey, for instance, that the fact his vision of the world politics did not grow and widen "probably offers as much commentary on the political environment in which he found himself, as upon the individual." The Eisenhower ordeal has left Hughes much more impressed with the stupidity and viciousness of this country's "political environment" than depressed at Eisenhower's problematical missed opportunities. More precisely, Hughes...
...want and are able to insure that a student's overall instruction is humanistically valuable. Those in position of responsibility usually appear to infer that because courses are given at Harvard, therefore they must be valuable. The logic of this inference is faulty: the results are regretable. "Enter to grow in wisdom" should be replaced, perhaps, by "Enter to increase in technical competence...
Demand seems certain to grow: eager research labs are rushing the development of battery-powered vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, vending machines, and even battery-heated clothing. And where nickel-cadmiums are not powerful enough to do the job, there is already a newer silver-cadmium rechargeable battery, which is even more expensive but packs a compact electrical wallop strong enough to drive portable industrial machinery...
...Forbes captured well what form the Oratorio has. By maintaining an admirable control of dynamics, he made the individual choruses grow within themselves and contrast among each other; the work ended with the largest sound the group produced all evening. The chorus closing the first half, also sounding as if it were ending something, possessed a motet-like lightness which is a remarkable achievement in this style...
...hollow cone-shaped spikes that punch holes in the film 8 in. apart and insert slugs of moist vermiculite (puffed-up mica) that contain a cottonseed and carefully calculated doses of fertilizer, insecticide and fungicide. Snuggled in the warmth and moisture under the film, the seeds sprout quickly and grow up through the hole. Cotton plants mature as much as one month early. Weeds that grow in the bare soil between the strips of film can be easily destroyed without hurting the cotton...