Word: growth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fond hope of the Deposit Library was to build up a collection of its own from duplicates of books which were deposited by more than one member institution. The collection as present consists of "The Book of Business Etiquette," "The American Government Today," and a couple of dictionaries. Rapid growth is not expected in the near future...
Citizen's Reward. In Columbus, Ga., after civic-mindedly cropping the two-year growth of grass which had been hiding a fireplug, Horace Gordon was the first to pay a $6 fine for parking near the newly exposed hydrant...
...confused with Harvard Historian Arthur Schlesinger (Political and Social Growth of the American People, 1865-1940), his father...
...building. Radio doesn't require much room, for most of WBZ-AM emanates either from the NBC network or from sister-station WBZA in Springfield. Ever since the WBZ building opened in July, 1948, television has been taking over space in corresponding proportion to the industry's general growth over the last few years...
...work looks simple. A hybrid chicken is merely the offspring of a mating between two different strains which have been carefully inbred for generations. This offspring inherits all the favorable characteristics of his purebred ancestors as well as a mysterious extra something called "hybrid vigor": a phenomenal capacity for growth and performance. Actually, the breeder may run through hundreds of combinations before he hits a "nick"-trade slang for a good hybrid. Wallace's nick didn't come until 1942, after six years of tedious experimentations. In one year, he had to throw out 34,000 chicks from...