Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these gases to form complicated chemicals that dissolved in sea water. There the chemicals reacted with each other and the water, forming bigger and bigger molecules. After millions or billions of years of this process, a single molecule-perhaps a nucleic acid-was formed that had the ability to grow, reproduce and evolve into higher organisms...
Looking through the league, it looks as if Harvard, Yale, and Brown are the real Ivy contenders with Dartmouth given a slight chance in spite of its loss to Brown. The Bruins have also dropped a contest to the Bulldogs, but they tend to grow stronger as the season progresses. Last year, Brown, in typical Ivy League fashion, knocked off the first place Crimson eleven...
...gradually stripped himself of all of his titles but chairman of the executive committee, and several aging Scripps-Howard editors have been replaced. Morale and pay are both often low on Scripps-Howard newspapers, many of which are understaffed and penny-pinched. But enthusiasm still has room to grow in the nurturing climate of local autonomy, and management now makes a point of trying to attract younger...
When a baby is at the stage of putting everything that comes to hand into his mouth, and often trying to swallow it, most parents figure that he will soon grow out of it. What far too few parents realize, according to the findings of a Washington research team, is how often this stage of development, natural up to the age of about 18 months, turns into a prolonged and unnatural craving for substances other than food. Nor do the parents of such children realize their own responsibility for the condition...
...Americans grow more sophisticated, however, the admen are turning to subtler appeals. Board Chairman David Ogilvy of Manhattan's Ogilvy, Benson & Mather plumps for detail-packed text ("How Super Shell's 9 ingredients give cars top performance." "25 facts you should know about KLM") on the grounds that today's customer is hungry for facts. In apparent proof of Ogilvy's contention, U.S. sales of Rolls-Royce cars doubled within three years after Ogilvy started running ads, with 21 paragraphs of text, under the headline: "At 60 miles an hour the loudest noise in this...