Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since the tax investigation has commenced I have been informed that perhaps our bookkeeping systems have not kept pace with the growth of the business and it may be that some taxes are owing to the Government. . . . I have assured the Government that any taxes which are rightfully due it will be paid...
...Lacus, a dark spot on Mars as big as the U. S. and located near the Martian south pole, had assumed a shape never before seen, or at least not in the last half-century. This change of shape, reasoned Old Marster Slipher, could be plausibly ascribed to the growth of fresh vegetation...
Cancer is a wildfire growth of rebel cells. Why and how normal cells suddenly go haywire and pile up into malignant tumors is the crucial research problem in cancer today. Last week, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Milwaukee, Dr. Herbert Eugene Schmitz and James Ernest Davis of Chicago's Mercy Hospital prodded the dark cancer whirlpool with one more little ray of light...
...views on that subject are that the best education occupies a middle ground between old-fashioned education for discipline and the newfangled education for fun. In education he sees a mental and spiritual analogy of embryology: growth as a series of responses to proper stimuli. Habits arise from repeated responses to a stimulus, and the inculcation of socially useful habits is a major function of education. On the relation of Europe's present troubles to thinking habits, Dr. Conklin says...
...Streets of Paris (produced by the Shuberts and Olsen & Johnson). Once Broadway had a summer season when producers trotted out fleecy and filmy girl shows. But with the decline of musicomedy and the growth of the straw-hat theatre, producers took to estivating. Show business decided months ago, however, that, with World's Fair crowds in the offing, this was to be no ordinary summer. The World's Fair began by knocking show business groggy; but by last week, when the first of the summer musicals opened, show business was up on one knee, with a chance...