Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...multiple applications from youngsters who cannot be sure which campus considers them suitable. Though high school guidance is improving, the pressure is rising so fast that even . the most fastidious counselor must steer youngsters to more and more colleges, hoping to get them in somewhere. In turn, colleges grow less sure of which students will accept them: many a small college begins the annual mating season with a deluge of applications, and winds up short of freshmen...
...rebel' is very easy. To grow a beard, to be sexually brave, to take dope even to kill-all these are understood experiences of 'nonconformism.' The one thing you cannot do is think, i.e., to build on your private definition of the world, and so to enjoy what Thomas Mann called the 'wealth of the mind'-that which makes a writer feel that he has a world in his hand ... I insist that in present terms, the theater of perversion, of 'sexual frankness,' of open violence, moves us farther away from the authentic...
Germs of Conflict. A graduate of Brown University (Ph.B. '25), with a Ph.D. in bacteriology at Western Reserve University's School of Medicine, Welch joined FDA in 1938. During World War II, as head of FDA's microanalytic division, he built a small pilot plant to grow his own penicillin, soon had the required standards and tests worked out. He was in on the ground floor when other antibiotics came along...
...with mental illness, but actually a different condition), or "committed to questionable custodial care in state hospital mental wards alongside adult psychotics." The result, he declared, is to deprive them of effective treatment until they have "long since left their childhood behind them and, with it, the chance to grow up as contributing members of society...
Over the past eight years, U.S. tourists in Canada have had to grow accustomed to the irritating fact that their dollar has been worth as little as 95? in Canadian currency. Last week the value of the U.S. dollar skipped up to its highest point in two years: 98.6? in Canadian funds. The narrowing gap between the two dollars reflected a drop in the volume of U.S. investment money entering Canada, which creates a demand for Canadian currency and raises its price in U.S. money. Some bankers were predicting that the two dollars would reach parity this summer...