Word: growth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cosmic Contribution. On the research front, an ingenious investigator has opened up a new line of inquiry. Atomic radiation is known to promote cancer growth. Could cosmic rays, the infinitesimal energy particles that continually bombard the earth from outer space, also promote it? Dr. Frank H. J. Figge, of the University of Maryland Medical School, published in Science some data that seemed to show they...
Such startling coincidences-or, as some firmly believe, "causes"-have given rise to a new quasi-economic science which smacks of witchcraft, astrology and old-fashioned predestination. Biologists, astronomers, chemists, et al. had already found that much of the growth and movement in their fields seemed to be governed by natural cycles controlled by mysterious agencies. Could the same be true of business and industry? Did economic man have no more control over his fate than the lemmings...
...Rhythm's the Thing. In the cycle theory, the basic elements are trends and cycles. Trends are the long-term rates of growth, while cycles are the shorter up-&-down deviations which take place during the growth. Dewey & Dakin hold, along with Alvin H. Hansen and other "mature school" economists, that the end of the U.S. economy is leveling off, that it has matured. Consequently, the downswings of the cycles may become deeper because there is less & less new growth to counteract them...
...more fit to rule millions of men than a boy of twelve. Physically I am failing: my senses, my locomotive powers, my memory, are decaying at a rate which threatens to make a Struldbrug* of me if I persist in living; yet my mind still feels capable of growth . . . [if] the Life Force would give me a body as durable as my mind ... I might begin a political career as a junior civil servant and evolve into a capable Cabinet minister in another hundred years...
Starting in 1893, the young groundskeeper watched from the sidelines as Harvard's progress in the pole vault began paralleling its academic growth--the latter under Eliot, Lowell, and finally Conant, who hadn't yet seen the light of day when Mike was babying his first track here out on Jarvis Field...