Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acquaintance with the world's thoughts and deeds. In brief, Harvard can urge the schools to modernize their teaching of both method and content, also to give depth and integration to their training, so that the existing gap between schools and colleges may be transformed into one continuous educational growth...
...whom Governor La Follette replaced Republican Dr. Glenn Frank-for a breakdown showing the cost-per-student of each department in the university. He said that in his business, when a department was found inefficient, it was discontinued. Said he, "I want to know if there is a cancerous growth, and if there is, I want to cure it or kill the patient." He said he would send his company's comptroller to help President Dykstra work out the figures...
...California caused rats to become giants by injecting them with crude pituitary extract. He dwarfed rats by pituitary removal, then with pituitary injections restored them to normal size. He made it clear that the reddish little gland was intimately concerned with one of the most important of biological processes-growth. Since then the veil of ignorance has been gradually lifted...
Moreover, some responses are not due to one hormone, but to the combined action of two or more. This phenomenon is called "synergism." The work of Evans and others convinced many a gland man that the pituitary secreted a "growth hormone." Riddle's researches, however, tend to show that growth is a synergic response to two hormones, thyrotropin and prolactin. He also believes that this same pair get together in another synergism to maintain body heat...
...year-old Chinese who is doing graduate work in experimental botany at Michigan State College. Last week his mentors announced that Cheong had produced seedless watermelons. He did it by removing the male elements of the flower from the vine before pollination could take place, treating the female with growth-stimulating chemicals. Some of his seedless melons are pear-shaped...