Word: growths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lake Bonneville to what is now known as the Great Salt Lake deposited natural salts in the land, leaving .4 of i% of salts, more than is permissible for many crops. Nick's experiment simulated Utah soil, but he failed to import Utah climate, which provides for the growth of Utah's huge stalks of crisp, white, stringless sweetheart celery...
...British net: Tycoon Hugo Stinnes, 48, son of Germany's onetime greatest financier and powerful figure in the Ruhr coal and steel industries. Said the British: "Such men represent the worst in Germany . . . never hesitated to use their vast power to support dubious political movements . . . assisted in the growth of the National Socialist Party...
...Russians have always known that Churchill feared and opposed the growth of Soviet power in eastern and central Europe. Nevertheless, it was clear at Potsdam that the Russians had more respect for Tory Churchill than for Socialist Premier Clement Attlee and his Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin. Russian Communists have been in power long enough to recognize the authoritative accents of a ruling class when they hear them; besides, there is the old Communist contempt for the "soft" socialist mentality...
...This growth of the curriculum raises . . . the main problem of this report, which has to do, not with the thousand influences dividing man from man, but with the necessary bonds and common ground between them. Democracy, however much by ensuring the right to differ it may foster difference--particularly in a technological age which further encourages division of function and hence difference of outlook--yet depends equally on the binding ties of common standards...
...ancient of days. Before even China, there was India. Before human memory congealed from legend into record, India loomed from the unimaginable reach of time. Its landscape matched its origins -an immense wedge of the world, vast plains cracked by a too hot sun, vast jungles writhing with growth from too dense rains, vast cities melting under the unflagging onset of oblivion and the soft decay of stone itself, 400 million people pullulating in a too frantic drive to defeat the multiplicity of daily death...