Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sulfur compounds cause body cells to grow extraordinarily fast, and are used regularly in medicine to hasten the healing of sores and wounds. Such substances may in some way be connected with the unknown physiological accidents which give rise to cancer. On the other hand, other sulfur compounds inhibit growth. These may be the body's regular protective guard against cancer. Miss Medes has made it her job to find out the answer to this phase of the cancer question, no matter what the cost. Thus far the brave scientist has discovered in her body none of the lumps...
...been using swelled and lost their shape. A woman wanted "a picture of all animals in the animal kingdom from protozone [sic] to mammal as soon as possible." For a moth-proofing company Ward's made up salesmen's display kit's showing the growth stages of moths and how they eat fabric. The research laboratories of General Electric and Westinghouse buy rare minerals. Amateur lapidaries order rough masses of aquamarine, rose quartz, agate...
...clearing house for all ideas, theories discussions, experiences, and criticism of Government, particularly Harvard's Government Department. The Council was first organized last spring, and it has quietly worked its way to the point where a hundred odd men attended last night's panel discussion. At that rate of growth, the Council will soon become a powerful, constructive force in the Government Department--a force which is conspicuously lacking in many other fields...
Beginning with the year 1636, when the Massachusetts General Court agreed "to give 400 pounds towards a schoale or college", Professor Morison traced the growth of the Yard up to the present time...
...reported on British Rearmament in an emotional rather than factual vein, "I have never believed and refuse to believe that war is inevitable," affirmed Sir Thomas. "I am not going to admit the British Navy has met an opponent which cannot be mastered.... It is suggested that the growth of air power has destroyed our historic security as an island. That is only a fraction of the truth. . . . We have a long start over anyone who is ill-advised enough to meddle with our freedom...