Word: grows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Dr. Florey's dynamic super vision, the blue-green penicillium mold began to grow again. The researchers dis covered that the best growing temperature is about 75° F.,that the mold needs plenty of air. At first, Dr. Florey's researchers got only about a gram of reddish-brown powder (the sodium salt of penicillin -penicillin itself is an unstable acid) from 100 liters of the mold liquid. But at last, after heroic chemical cookery, they accumulated enough penicillin to test the drug on living creatures...
Doctors and amateurs also began to grow the mold on their own. The usual method was to let penicillium grow on gauze, then use the gauze for a bandage (TIME...
...suspicion began to grow six weeks ago, however, when Fabien Sevitzky played Barrymore's Partita with the Indianapolis Symphony. And last week Eugene Ormandy led the Philadelphia Orchestra through a broadcast of Barrymore's In Memoriam, a warm, romantic, ingratiating tone poem dedicated to brother John. In connection with the broadcast, several hitherto unpublicized facts appeared: 1) Lionel Barrymore has been composing for the past 40 years; 2) he is as well acquainted with the techniques of composition as many a professional; 3) his unpublished compositions are numbered in the hundreds and include works for everything from solo...
Whether they work or not, all prisoners receive coupons worth 10? a day, to buy things at the canteen. In addition, 80? a day is paid to those who work at the post's sawmill or auto-maintenance shop, or in the vegetable garden, where they grow food for their own use. Out of their wages they have bought instruments for an orchestra; some of them are good musicians. Their favorite U.S. songs: Pistol Packin' Mamma, Mairzy Doats...
...Very few people in high places think that there is much to fear from De Gaulle, no matter what his ambitions may be. Even those who consider him dangerous say by all means play ball with him so that his power does not grow. The French, these people say, will be able to keep De Gaulle in check-but only after the Allies extend their hand to him and his organization...