Word: grows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WHERE THE WEAK GROW STRONG- Eugene Armfield-Covici, Friede...
Reading Eugene Armfield's Where the Weak Grow Strong is like trying to carry too many bundles at one time, dropping several whenever you pick up one. It begins on a July morning of 1912, when the northbound flyer whistles for Tuttle, N. C. (pop. 5,000), a dead town that contains a chair factory, a textile mill, an undue proportion of neurotic inhabitants. The whistle makes a baby cry, gives a little girl a nightmare, disturbs a dying man, awakens a bridegroom, arouses a bride. Thereafter for 395 pages, as exhaustively as a census taker, Author Armfield moves...
Grandmother appreciated the letters she received from all over the world relative to her "grow a beard" suggestion to the President...
...conclusion, after a careful summary of reasons why Lincoln should grow a beard and a really masterful and wholly feminine appeal to his vanity, was naively blunt: "Answer this letter right off-goodbye...
...into Youth. The rule that what is young must irrevocably grow old is almost universal in Nature. But not quite. The bones of animals generate a young cell called an osteoblast, which becomes a middle-aged cell called an osteoclast, which becomes an aged cell called a fibroblast, which ultimately dies. Dr. Franklin C. McLean and his University of Chicago co-worker fed parathyroid extract to aged fibroblasts, turned them into baby osteoblasts...