Word: growths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, some of ICCASP's growth was the result of the absent-minded alacrity with which famous people often join societies for the advancement or prevention of almost anything...
...Growth-regulating chemicals are working an agricultural revolution. They defoliate cotton plants, enabling mechanical cotton pickers to gather clean cotton, something they could not do before. They make apples hang longer on trees. They kill weeds selectively. They semicastrate tomato flowers, and produce seedless tomatoes...
...tangled Soviet hierarchy has been riveted solidly to Stalin's ever since. In 1925 he became a full member of the potent Politburo. In 1930 Stalin made him premier of the U.S.S.R., a job he held through the decade of the Soviet Union's greatest growth. The approach of war turned the Kremlin's main attention from domestic to foreign affairs. None of the top-rank surviving Old Bolsheviks had specialized in foreign relations. Ex-Mensheviks Vishinsky, Maisky, Surits were not wholly trusted. So Molotov in 1939 was made Foreign Minister...
...notable progress, points out Author Berg, has been in treating paralyzed patients, thanks to Sister Kenny's physical therapy. Also promising: the rivet-gun technique developed by California Surgeon Harvey Billig, who pounds paralyzed muscles into a pulp and crushes the nerves attached to them, thereby stimulating the growth of new nerve endings and restoring strength to the muscles by bringing more muscle fibers into play...
...from comfortably fixed families. Most of the youngsters went from the Clinic's guidance nursery to elementary public school. Dr. Gesell intends their behavior-biographies as rough guides for parents and teachers of the Five to Ten group. But he warns: "Every child has an individual pattern of growth, unique to him ... he travels by his own tailor-made time schedule." His findings...