Word: grows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...land in the U.S. can grow so much corn as this area of central Illinois. Herman Warsaw, the national corn-growing champ from Saybrook, took a 30-acre plot of ground that produced 38 bu. per acre in 1941 and tended it so exquisitely that last year it yielded 370 bu. per acre. The Government cuts down acreage, and farmers, fighting honorably for position in capitalism's markets, devise new fertilizers and hybrids and with God's help do better and better on less and less land...
...Harvard president could remain totally immune to criticism, and there are some who think Bok tends to speechify too much and others who think he should see more of the students. But on balance, he wins high marks. "Bok has continued to grow rather than rigidify," says Sociologist David Riesman, author of The Lonely Crowd. "He's a rarity." Law Professor Archibald Cox, whose experience with presidents includes being fired as Special prosecutor in Richard Nixon's Saturday Night Massacre, is equally enthusiastic. Bok, he says, "has set all the parts and players in harmony...
...whether we think upon the monotony or the violence in human history, two things are always new--youth and the quest for knowledge, and with these a university is concerned. So long as its interest in them is keen it can never grow old, though it counts its age by centuries...
University officials and the president had been watching the rising protests here and at other college campuses. "We had been studying these repeated demonstrations for almost two years, or a year and a half, and watching them grow," he says. "If we let that [the take-over] drag on, it would last weeks or conceivably months...
After a month, you can feel your hairs grow, second by second; after two months, you notice when one of your cells dies...