Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rockefeller Institute, Dr. Peyton Rous in 1910 proved that a filterable virus is the cause of sarcoma (a kind of cancer) in chickens. At Harvard and then at the Rockefeller Foundation, South Africa-born Max Theiler performed the delicate and dangerous feat of getting yellow-fever virus to grow in the brains of mice. With infinite patience, Theiler in 1936 grew 176 generations of virus in tissue cultures of chick embryo cells,* weakening the virus with each "pass" and seeking a generation that would be too feeble to induce the disease, yet strong enough in a vaccine to spur...
Guess all of us here have been too busy watching Detroit grow to realize we are about to become a ghost town. Busy watching miles of expressways being built within the city limits, new buildings going up in the downtown area. Apartment buildings replacing inadequate housing. New schools, and those classrooms will all be filled...
...Gypsy Caravan. Augustus John was born in the Welsh seacoast town of Tenby, the son of the leading barrister in town. He discovered his talent for drawing early, at 18 entered the University of London's Slade School of Fine Art. He let his hair and beard grow, adopted whatever garb-flowing smocks, trailing scarves, bright bandannas-that seemed appropriate to a budding genius. Thus the legend of Augustus John began...
...woman who has thought about all this and taken a reasonable, constructive, moderate and just slightly outraged stand is Mary I. Bunting, 51, mother, microbiologist, and the new president of Radcliffe College. U.S. girls, she thinks, grow up in "a climate of unexpectation," willing to be educated but convinced by "hidden dissuaders" that they will not really use their education. Mrs. Bunting, who describes herself as "a geneticist with nestbuilding experience," finds unexpectation hidden everywhere. As she puts...
...Adults ask little boys what they want to do when they grow up. They ask little girls where they got that pretty dress. We don't care what women do with their education. Why, we don't even care if they learn to be good mothers...