Word: growths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...common to migrants of all time in quest of adventure or security or freedom (or simply of wider skies and unfamiliar faces), he sailed toward the west. The hard but hospitable shores received him and he vanished, unknown and untraced, in the fertile chaos of a country's growth. No one ever knew whether he found what he sought. He didn't write home...
...central zone, this is an ideal location for Harvard's graduate school of Forestry. Silviculture studies in progress at Petersham are aimed at profitable methods or scientific care of handling a forest as a perpetual crop. The natural sciences, chemistry and physics are combined in the study of tree growth and soils, tree breeding, forest protection and forest economics. Two buildings were completed here in 1941--the Fisher Museum of Forestry, which contains models showing the history of the local forest and the application of Silviculture; and Shaler Hall, containing offices, a library and living quarters. Both buildings, erected...
Readers who look patiently will find authentic U.S. history in Holdfast Gaines, hidden under a growth of dialect as thick as dog hair and the most unabashedly bogus hard-luck love story since the days of J. Fenimore Cooper...
...precocious growth of the infant study of psychology brought about this development which, little known to most students, has been going on slowly since 1940. In that year of anxious peace in the United States, the Psychology Department, in its cramped old quarters on the top floor of Emerson, called for more space to initiate a Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory to do original research on the problems of sound and its effect on the human car and mind...
...West's blunders: Paris Conference treaty terms which Italians considered harsh and impossible to meet; failure of UNRRA shipments because of U.S. strikes; resentment at the cutting of Italian forests by Allied occupation authorities. All of these contributed to Italian disillusionment with democracy and to the growth of an underground neo-Fascist organization which, rumor says, is headed by Augusto Turati, former Fascist party secretary...