Word: growths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thimann, who is one of the country's leading authorities on plant growth, is currently working with hybrid rubber trees in an effort to determine the best manner by which they can be propagated in sufficient numbers for commercial...
...laboratory, Thimann has announced, will also conduct extensive experiments to determine the effects of hormones on plant growth. These studies are being financed through funds provided by the American Cancer Foundation in an effort to collect all possible information concerning growth in both plants and animals...
MOSCOW, October 16--A slash of $10,571,000,000 in next year's Russian defense budget, along with a hike of about $566,000,000 for scientific research "for further growth of the economic and military might of the Soviet Union" was recommended by Finance Minister A. G. Zverev in proposals published today...
Uncertain Voice. Last week Integrity's first issue was mailed to 1,100 subscribers (at $3 a year). Wrote the editors: "Because it is a child, we are pleased with it. Because it is just a child, we look forward to its growth and development." To readers of such sophisticated Catholic journals as Commonweal and America, Integrity looked like a child indeed. Its gait was sometimes uncertain and its voice had a tendency to crack and tremble with emotion, but its eyes were wide and clear...
...with forceps. Apparently the result of internal bleeding caused by an old baseball blow under the heart (calcium deposits are often found in scar tissue), the casing had prevented the heart muscle from growing, had restricted blood circulation. By starving body tissues, it had stopped the boy's growth...