Word: growths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of generations of experience and all the thousands of case histories, cancer research has advanced at a turtle's pace. Doctors acknowledge the basic truisms that cancer is cell growth gone wild, that cases discovered early can sometimes be cured through X ray, surgery, radioactive substances. But beyond that, chains of ignorance still bind their hands...
...your review of Lysenko's book, Heredity and its Variability [TIME, Feb. 11], you conclude: "If Lysenko's . . . methods [of stimulating organisms to new directions of growth] really work, the world has a powerful method of adapting plants and animals to the needs of man." It may be stated that methods like those of Lysenko have been tested for decades before his time by friends and foes and neutrals and their verdict has been: "They don't work!" Lysenko has not caused a revolution but has rather gone back to the prescientific era in genetics. Lysenko...
Growing Pains. This phenomenal growth has all been within the last decade. It began one day in the late '20s in Dallas when 1,500 schoolteachers asked Baylor University Hospital if it would furnish three weeks prepaid care for a fixed, per-person payment of $6 a year. The hospital, scenting a dependable source of income, said...
...year to build houses. Inflationary clouds filled the sky; an old growth of building restrictions lay matted like vines all across the nation. There were shortages of skilled labor and materials. But thousands of veterans were roaming the streets looking for a place-any place -to live...
...present decade (1940-1950), the rate of increase in U.S. diabetics will be double the rate of population growth...