Word: overgrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Triangles. Easy Ed Macauley, who at 19 looks like an overgrown altar boy, got a respectful hand from the crowd. But most of the 18,491 spectators were obviously rooting for New York University's white-uniformed Violets, who had won 19 straight, had stayed undefeated longer than any other major college team. They were missing their star set-shot artist, Don Forman, out with an aching back...
...fabled as the city dweller's Valhalla, a land inhabited by glittering artistic folk and their swimming pools, ol debbil Bucks County squirms evilly under the pen of master funnyman S. J. Perelman. In this newest offering, Mr. Perelman has created a sometimes hilarious expose of a plague spot overgrown with Japanese beetles and a gigantic land crab often called "the rustic...
Concluded Taft: "If the people want a definite end to overgrown bureaucracy, overgrown spending, overgrown taxing, and overgrown regulation of everybody-all abuses of the New Deal; if they wish a return to the common-sense American method of handling our problems of regulation and social welfare, and our foreign policy, within the principles of American government, they can only reach that end by electing a Republican President in 1948-and they will...
...discovery was made by Kenneth V. Thimann, Professor of plant physiology, after months of experimentation at the Atkins Institute in Soledad, Cienfuegos, Cuba. The weed apparently eliminated by the experiment is the Aroma marabu weed, which had overgrown large acreages of sugar land on the island and is also a problem to cattle raisers in the region...
Viruses are the smallest known disease-producing organisms: the biggest of them is less than one-hundred-thousandth of an inch in diameter. Biologists once wondered whether a virus was a living organism or just an overgrown, active protein molecule. The dispute is still not entirely settled, but the electron microscope shows that many of them look and act like living things. At a recent American Medical Association symposium, leading U.S. virologists described an amazing variety of viruses, ranging from types that attack only bacteria to those that infect...