Word: grows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your article covering Dr. Hoyle's theory of gravitation [June 26] was very informative, but it seems to me that Dr. Hoyle was preceded by Lucretius, who in 70 B.C. said: No single thing abides, but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings; the things thus grow until we know and name them. By degrees they melt, and are no more the thing we know...
...that the black marlin is the biggest game fish around; some sharks grow bigger. The black is just the fastest, strongest, smartest and meanest-and big enough too. The record for rod and reel is 1,560 Ibs., and even the babies-meaning 200 Ibs. or so-have bills like baseball bats. Golfer...
...A.M.A. Journal of a report on work done by a University of Oregon team of researchers. Delivered in San Francisco, the detailed paper described experiments done on a particular and unusual form of cancer in a particular strain of laboratory rats. Like some human cancers, this one will grow faster if the animals are given certain hormones, and will all but disappear under doses of other hormones...
...Oregon researchers wanted to find out whether hormones tagged with a radioactive phosphorus compound would concentrate in the cancers to effect a faster cure. But first they had to make the cancers grow lustily, and this they did by giving the rats a variety of hormones. Among them were progestin and an estrogen, hormones which are combined in G. D. Searle & Co.'s famed Enovid (pronounced En-ah-vid) contraceptive pills...
...high school at Glen Clove, L.I., Samuel Riley Pierce Jr. wanted to be a songwriter: "It's one of those things you grow out of when you grow into others." He soon put away his unpublished scores, grew into law and government. Last week Lawyer Pierce, at 41, became the first Negro elected to the board of a major U.S. manufacturing company-U.S. Industries Inc., producer of automation equipment, with 1963 sales of $96 million. He is a partner in the Manhattan law firm that handles U.S. Industries' labor matters. A star halfback and Phi Beta Kappa...