Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then there was Larry Bell, Martin's general manager, now president of Bell Aircraft-may his shadow never grow less! In a quiet way, Larry simply bristled with reluctance to fly, but felt that he should do a bit of flying in the interests of factory morale...
Chungkingers with know-how see plenty of sense in pegged dollars. Armed with a license to trade in foreign exchange, a member of "The Gang" can grow fat by moving back & forth between the black and the legal market, between smuggling, hoarding and speculation. As those who know the ropes pile up paper profits, they turn to time-honored ways of hedging against the effects of the inflation that they helped to create. They buy land...
...Blanco gave the first play-by-play description of the disease's course. First a small, dark raised spot appears on a leg or arm (there may be several of these and they last for months without breaking the skin). Then a cluster of similar spots, which grow larger, form blotches some times as big or bigger than a 50? piece. On white people the blotches are pink, red or brown; on dark-skinned people they are purple, blue or black. Some blotches itch. After a year or more the dark spots begin to lose their color...
...Dorothy Canfield Fisher; its greatest lack is the statistics that would give substance to its disconnected case histories and its well-intentioned but sketchy stories of distress among the 100,000,000 children of the Axis-occupied countries. Most shocking question it raises: When Europe's uprooted children grow up, what will they do to a world which has done such things to them...
...year-round lightweight, solid-color pajamas, with a blue cape around his shoulders, a chat with his secretaries on the day's schedule. Despite their best efforts and the President's recurring resolutions to cut down, his daily list of callers always seems to grow longer. Franklin Roosevelt likes people and loves an audience; Secretary "Pa" Watson still faces the problem of dragging away overtime visitors in the midst of Presidential anecdotes...