Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Flaying racketeering, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Klein declared: "A monstrous growth, a vile, malignant para site rising from the slime of criminal greed ! . . . This evil must be rooted out if American business is to progress vigorously again...
...ones; the irritation kills the new ones, and continues to kill succeeding new crops; eventually the body becomes vexed, as it were, and rushes the production of new cells; those hastily created cells grow so fast that they get beyond control of that mechanism in the body which regulates growth; and there is the Cancer...
...drugs - neither galenicals, minerals, chemicals, vitamins nor hormones - pre vent the growth of Cancer...
...even now somewhat naively visualized by the press and by visitors staggered by the physical splendor of the buildings. None but the most excitable, however, expected radical changes in the mental outlook of men who were to reside in the first two units. Nevertheless there has been a growth of ennui among those previously interested in the House Plan, and as the interest has waned, the sharpness of perception has dulled with it, so that probably the majority do not realize that the first two units are wielding influences, different in each case, on their inhabitants. The Houses...
...They feel weak all over; their stomachs are irritable; their blood pressure is low; and, most notably, their skin deepens in color. They usually die during a fainting spell. The notable pigmentation is deceptive. Many another condition causes similar discoloring: pregnancy, constipation, cancer, chronic stomach ulcers, abdominal growths, pernicious anemia. Affection, most often tuberculosis, of the suprarenal glands, is the cause of Addison's disease. The glands are two small bodies, shaped like cocked hats and one perched at the top of each kidney. Each gland is made up of a cortex or rind and a medulla or pith...