Word: grows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harsh breathing, turn blue, hold his breath, go into convulsions. Immediate remedy is an oxygen tent. X-rays of the infant's chest will reveal any enlargement of the thymus. X-ray irradiations will reduce an enlarged thymus. The complexions of thymic children after irradiation never seem to grow old, always remain peaches & cream...
...ordinary heeler wants in return for his services is a small official job and accompanying "perquisites." If his party stays out of power too long, he will grow discouraged, seek other livelihood. That is what has been happening to the Republican machine since 1932. But the heeler may be equally bereft if his party wins too often and too easily. For then the party generals and captains and lieutenants come to believe that they themselves achieved the victories, forget the rear-rank privates who did the actual fighting...
...Army Medical Corps he saw so much of the influenza epidemic of 1918 that after the Armistice he became a bacteriologist and the nation's foremost authority on the submicroscopic, filterable viruses which cause diseases like influenza. His great achievement, accomplished at the Rockefeller Institute, was to grow viruses in tissue cultures. This permits quantity production of unadulterated virus, so far chiefly useful for further research. Dr. Rivers latest work has been on a new disease, lymphocytic choriomeningitis, which attacks the spinal cord and brain...
...turn him into a horse healthy and hale enough to race at all. As a two-year-old, War Admiral last year won three races, finished second twice, third once. Offsetting his speed and good blood he had one dangerous defect: he was delicate. Last winter, instead of growing as a two-year-old should, he showed signs of remaining the same size. A specially knitted pommel cloth was by no means the only coddling that War Admiral got. Trainer Conway had him exercised just enough to give him an appetite but not enough to tire him. Instead...
Charging President Conant has forgotten his promise to have all sides represented in the field of social studies, the articles states that "he (Conant) forbids his social science departments to grow, deprives them of financial nourishment, and leaves them in the hands of scholars who will never grow younger in ideas or years...