Word: growths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late great growth of schussing she attributes to fashion. "When department stores took ski clothes for girls out of the sporting goods shops and stocked the ski suits where they could be seen," she says, "they became part of the college wardrobe...
...summer profusion took their breath away, for Tristan, 1,700 miles over their shoulders in the lonely South Atlantic, is scrubby volcanic crust. In the slow, burred speech of his seafaring west-of-England ancestors, one dazzled visitor exclaimed: "We want time foor arl thus luvverly flowery growth to be thought upon...
...children-in height, weight, or hemoglobin and red cell count. General health seemed to favor the margarine boys & girls, but the doctors cautiously credited "other variables." Their conclusion : "Whether the greater part of the fat of the diet is derived from vegetable or animal sources has no effect on growth and health. .. . Margarine is a good source of table fat in growing children...
Times staffers had expected the change. In the last few months, while Boettiger has been away "on business," Mrs. Boettiger has practically taken over the job of running the paper. The Times has taken a good deal of running. Despite its fast growth, it is not yet making money, and two months ago it borrowed $200,000 from a bank, to get "an extra margin" of capital. "If we don't meet the payments," said Mrs. Boettiger, "we lose the plant and the newspaper." She doesn't expect to lose. She has put her big, rambling suburban house...
Bush stressed the growth of engineering as a profession, and looked forward to the day when a newly born profession of management could league with engineering to "so manage prosperity as to make it conducive to the health of the nation...