Word: growths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Discussion (by Author Carl Van Doren, Cornell English Professor David Daiches, Educator Lyman Bryson) of John Locke's Two Treatises on Civil Government, concluding a series of 16 broadcasts on the growth of Western society...
Could he do it? Like Art Smith, the Ottawa Citizen last week thought it would be the other way around. The anti-CCF Citizen noted the swing to socialism in Great Britain and elsewhere in the world, and candidly said: "Canada has already witnessed the birth and steady growth of its own social democratic party, the CCF." As the trend continues, the Citizen said, one or the other of the older parties will either disappear or will coalesce. Then the CCF "will assume ... its position as the 'other' major political party in Canada...
...doctors' subversive opinions were part of a general attack by radical biologists on conventional conceptions of growth: the basic life process. If the new theories hold, they will affect all biology, from animal breeding to the understanding of cancer...
...Control. What good was the discovery? The biological revolutionists were reluctant to say. But they admitted (with a gleam in their eyes) that it gave a new, promising method of controlling cell life and growth. They had already con trolled yeast cells by regulating competition among plasmagenes. Future biologists might do the same with bacteria cells or man cells...
...grown upward from the depths. The atolls, he concluded, must have been formed when islands sank, and the coral reefs fringing their shorelines continued to grow. "For as mountain after mountain, and island after island slowly sank beneath the water, fresh bases would be successively afforded for the growth of the corals...