Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rules should be few at the beginning. The organization should grow by practice, not try to start with a fixed, rigid code...
...nations of northern and western Europe and of North America, chiefly industrial, grew fast in the past century, from 115 million in 1800 to 435 million in 1940. But most of them will grow no more. The U.S., an exception, will increase to some 160 million by 1975, will then join the other dominant nations' decline...
Southern and eastern Europe, Russia and Japan, chiefly agricultural nations, will increase in population for some time to come. The U.S.S.R. will grow from 174 million to 251 million by 1970, while Europe is declining from 542 to 225 million...
...next few decades India may grow from 389 million to 500, China from 400 million to 600. This "will raise economic and political problems which cannot be solved within the political structures built up by Europe during its period of growth and dominance. Either we must organize the world ... so that the inevitable and desirable needs of peoples for raw materials, etc. can be met ... or we must look forward to periodical and devastating explosions such as we are now having...
...Little People. Lacandones rarely grow more than five feet tall. No more than 200 of them survive. Their thatched huts are hidden deep in the forest, approached by secret paths. They are hunters and farmers. But they work only when and as they please. When they want to do nothing, they do nothing...