Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That's how life is," Demos commented. "Things get born, they grow, and they...
...know that I was ever a confirmed farmer." he drawls. "But you grow up doin' somethin', and you don't shake it. Physical inactivity just bugs me no end. and that's somethin' you don't suffer from on the farm...
...prestige campuses, 90% of all B.A.s do go on studying (national rate: 33%). The generalists are also unhappy about speedup advanced-standing schemes in which students skip entire years. (They approve the extra-credit Advanced Placement Program.) At Harvard, Classicist John Finley argues that even ultrabrights need time to grow up. "A student can fly from the West Coast to Harvard in a few hours," says Finley, "but the soul is like a little dog that has to run all the way across the continent, and gets to Cambridge about a year and a half later...
Mixing mild parody with whirlwind farce, O'Brien quickly has Manus (referred to simply as "The Brother") escape to England and there grow rich by founding a bogus correspondence academy. Sample subjects: Egyptology, Cure of Boils, Panpendarism, Sausage Making in the Home. Collopy, dying from a dosage of one of The Brother's patent medicines, embarks on the inevitable pilgramage to Rome. His grotesquely comic death there after a burlesque papal audience is the kind of thing that even the late Ole Olsen and Chick Johnson could hardly have coped with...
Orange State, a new school in the California state college system, is scheduled to grow to more than 25,000 students within 15 years. Right now the school has large tracts of unimproved land which, according to Backer," make ideal elephant pastures...