Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wrote former Under Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew: "When I learned that your name had been coupled with thefts of official documents I was inexpressibly shocked. ... I am pleased you are returning to duty...
This week the Elihus grew desperate and inserted and advertisement in the New York Times. ". ... Yielding $420 per annum . . . it is open to all male students with the surname of Leavenworth...
...hallucinations grew worse on Wednesday and Thursday, and every few minutes another man would scream of his vision and die. Not until late Thursday morning, three and a half days after the ship sank, were the men discovered-accidentally, by a plane on a routine flight. When surface ships picked them up that night, the survivors learned they had not yet been reported overdue...
...Once a little pig was sent abroad. In lands and countries far away he grew up. When he came back home he had grown into a hog. Nothing seemed good enough for him and nothing pleased him here. He went around grunting about things he saw in foreign lands. And he looked exactly like foreign hogs abroad. I feel disgusted to mention him even in a fable...
...Shapiro of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons and Bernice L. Maclean of Hunter College removed some buds from week-old kittens, transplanted them to the mouths of other kittens and full-grown cats. Result (as reported in the Journal of Dental Research) : all the buds grew into full-size teeth. Eventually, said Dr. Shapiro last week, it may be possible to take a tooth bud from a child whose second teeth are obviously going to be crowded, sow it in the mouth of a gap-toothed adult...