Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plastic Skin. About 4% of accidents in brain arteries are episodes of bleeding from an aneurysm-a ballooned-out, weak section of an artery. Aneurysms are usually congenital in origin. When they grow large or rupture, they may cause serious brain damage or death. The mortality rate in untreated cases is about...
After the bits of mush had been incubated for nine days, their jumbled cells arranged themselves in pretty good order. Getting nourishment from the blood supply of the membrane, they started to grow again. Kidney cells grew into a tiny kidney that seemed to be trying to purify the blood of a nonexistent chick. Liver cells developed into a miniature liver one-fifth of an inch long and apparently able to secrete bile to digest a chick's food. The skin cells arranged themselves into a sheet, produced sprouting feathers about one-tenth of an inch long...
...time ago how she wanted to look, and she hasn't changed since." Much the same might be said of Georgia O'Keeffe's painting. But if she has not fundamentally changed in her 72 years, the most eminent of U.S. women painters has continued to grow in technical mastery and emotional depth. Last week, at the Worcester (Mass.) Art Museum, gallerygoers could see the extent of her range in her first major show in 14 years-the work of a superb and unerring craftsman who has always walked alone...
...disagreement over where to fit grades 7-9 in a school system. Some communities keep grades 7 and 8 in elementary school, some plump for a six-year high school, and still others hold that the separate three-year junior high school gives combustible half-adolescents a chance to grow at their own pace. In reality, says Conant, the junior high often becomes "a replica of the senior high school with its attendant social pressures." Hitting hard at pretentious commencements, big-time football and marching bands that "serve merely as public entertainment," Conant snorts that all such status seeking...
This is only a sketch of the way pre-College experience reappears during the Freshman year, but it virtually discredits the frequent claim that the first year is good because it forces students to reexamine themselves, draw on their inner resources, and grow in stature. In fact, many of the changes a Freshman goes through are progress only because the Freshman year is considered a time of progress...