Word: growths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ready to talk, regally, about her love for democracy, about Sur, about herself, her dislike for totalitarian government. But she talks most easily about the growth of her love and knowledge of Argentina. Said she this week: "Before I only knew Buenos Aires province. Now I have discovered the rest of the country...
Chicago's Spiegel, Inc., third largest of U.S. mail-order houses, is still a pygmy among giants; Spiegel's 1945 sales were only $70 million to Montgomery Ward's $700 million. Sears, Roebuck's massive $1 billion. Last week the pygmy was jolted full of growth hormones...
Manhattan Obstetrician Raphael Kurzrok believes that a large number of miscarriages are caused by "genital hypoplasia" (malformation plus deficient hormone activity). His analysis: in some women, because of insufficient output of estrogen (a female hormone) during pregnancy, expansion of the uterus fails to keep pace with growth of the fetus. Rupture of the membrane and miscarriage result...
Down from Glory. There could be no doubt that the once-great U.S. military machine was sadly rickety. Ike Eisenhower had already found that not a single division in the U.S. was fully trained and equipped. Even the staff organization, which was ready in 1940 to guide the growth of the war-born Army, had come loose at the seams. Eisenhower's flat prediction: "It would take another year to establish the framework of an organization with an efficiency that would compare with what...
...asked Stalin further, "did Mr. Churchill have to delude people" and "wander around the truth" in speaking of the growth of Communism in Europe? Churchill had made it sound like the result of Communist police-government tactics. It was really that Europe's "common people, having tried the Communists in the fire of struggle," had given Communists their confidence. Stalin added pointedly: "It is they, millions of these common people, who voted Mr. Churchill and his party out in England...