Word: grows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rain forests," Loveridge explained yesterday, "are patches of dense forest on isolated plateaus in East Africa. They're being rapidly enroached on by plantations, and once the trees are cut, no more grow back. The sun is so hot that it practically sterilizes the ground...
...Peruvian skulls which bore evidence of trephining, Dr. Rogers was able to tell a good deal about the nature and success of the primitive operation. The methods used in removing the bone included drilling, sawing, cutting and scraping. If the patient did not die immediately, new bone tended to grow back although in no case was the hole completely closed. From this evidence Dr. Rogers concluded: that 78% of the victims survived the operation, that 63% lived for several years afterward, as shown by advanced healing. Of the 22% who failed to survive, probably not all died from the operation...
...mean to indicate that the speakers who won the awards were not capable and well trained. Nor do I intimate that the judges were consciously unfair. But when young men grow impassioned about the ideology and the problems of today, conservative scholars from another age should never be recruited for the task of judging. Their ideals must be so jarringly dissimilar that any true impartiality is at least unlikely...
Recently Sylva heard there was a chance of improvement by surgical operation-crushing the malformed nerve tracts in her neck in the hope that they would grow together normally. Such an operation, though not unique, is rare. Stocky, bespectacled Dr. Frank Randall Teachenor, one of the most brilliant neurological surgeons in the Midwest, had never before performed it. He warned Sylva that although it might help her, it might make her worse or even cause her death. Sylva decided to take the chance. Her mother tried to dissuade her, but the girl persisted in her determination...
Teachers are criticized for not attempting to make their courses as interesting and stimulating as they might be. Grow-faculty disinterestedness. The Darting student apathy can be traced to this mouth summarizes the undergraduate attitude to studies as a "game the object of which is to see how little you can make the teacher think you are capable of leaning...