Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bruns, whom we follow to their several graves. Aricie is the unselfish daughter who, after losing a gallant military lover, serves her family in season and out; hands over a later suitor-her last chance-to her lovelorn cousin; fusses over the little nephews and great-nephews as they grow up into soldiers, painters and poets out of the mercantile tradition of the family. Aricie grows "inhuman through excess of altruism," a woman who kills herself with kindness to others...
...BIOLOGY OF POPULATION GROWTH, Raymond Pearl, Knopf ($3.50). Dr. Pearl, Director of the Institute of Biological Research at Johns Hopkins, long famous in scientific circles for his studies of how living things grow, has here produced a book which is intelligible to the layman yet includes enough scientific and mathematical data to be significant to scientists. He describes briefly experiments which show that a white rat, a pumpkin, the new tail of a tadpole (when the first tail is cut off), a colony of yeast cells in a sugar solution, a colony of fruit flies in a milk bottle, grow...
Through years of instruction, he has proved himself in the words of President Lowell, "a teacher with a rare gift for making delight in literature contagious." His guidance ought to fulfill the promise that English A is to grow into a maturer course...
...Vitamin A helps young animals grow, keeps them from certain eye affections; its absence is a factor in rickets. Vitamin B stimulates the metabolic processes, especially those concerned in digestion and assimilation of food. Vitamin C prevents scurvy...
...most potent. The masque concerns a charming maiden, Mah Phru, who consoled King Meng Beng while he awaited the coming of his Cingalese bride from Ceylon, bearing him two sons in the interim. When he returned to his palace she followed as a white peacock, watched her sons grow up, adored Meng Beng mutely. When he was dying, she revived him, at the cost of her own life, with the aid of "the only magician the world knows?Love." The properties include: howdahed elephants, "myriad golden and jewel-encrusted bells," colored glass balls, cheroots, a betel-nut box, "dragons...