Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...James B. Murphy (Rockefeller Institute) told the National Academy of Sciences how he had concentrated a mysterious substance from rapidly-growing tissue-placenta and embryo skin-of rabbits and mice, shot it into other rabbits and mice suffering from one form of cancer (carcinoma). In most cases the cancerous growth was arrested. A substance concentrated from chicken tumors checked another type of cancer (sarcoma). The inhibitors have not been tried on cancerous human beings...
...Rains early in the breeding season encourage them to settle, raise their families on shallow ponds, sloughs and potholes. Then hot, windy weather comes to suck up the water, leaves ducklings fatally high & dry. Falling water levels in larger ponds and lakes foster the decay of organic matter, the growth of microbes which give both young & old ducks botulism, "western duck disease," a form of food poisoning. At Saskatchewan's Johnstone Lake an estimated 150,000 ducks died of this disease during August and September...
...sports as well as in football, athletes have come to regard their chance to play against a team from New Haven as the climax of the season. It is a comforting though that, no matter how much whittling of the Harvard Athletic program, an uncertain financial future or the growth of inter-House sports may make necessary, relations with Yale will always be continued...
...hope based on the possibilities of exploiting nationalist feeling to the full and making the most of the existing cultural affiliations with Germany, home of fellow Nordics. And as in Norway and elsewhere, the Nazis' biggest card will be the Social Democrats' sentimental worship of Democracy, regardless of the growth of those pledged, and likely, to destroy it forever. CASTOR...
...many people does a fair draw? A Century of Progress collected 22,320,000 paid admissions in its 170 days of operation by comparison with 21,480,000 for Chicago's famed Columbian Exposition (179 days in 1893). To estimate drawing power of the two fairs: weigh the growth of U. S. population from 62,000,000 to 122,000,000 against the relative severity of Depression...