Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stumbling block in the path of good neighborliness, he said, is the long "misunderstanding" between the U.S. and Argentina. "All you know of us," he says, "is what, you read in the newspapers. . . . All we know about you is what we learn from those big businessmen who live and grow wealthy in Argentina for 30 years without ever learning the language. Or we see your terrible movies-sex, loose women, jazz, gangsters, stupid slapstick comedy. How can you understand us, or we understand you, without effort...
...There are many complaints that the war should be stopped. [We] know it. However, we are fighting for the establishment of a true world peace. While we are fighting, we can't say we are suffering. . . . No, the inconveniences will grow in the future. . . . We are not yet eating rats or crows as they do in Europe...
...ranged from fried bear steak to Cornish pastries, its inhabitants still quarreled in some 30 different languages and dialects. In war as in peace, Butte was still a mining camp, still one of the rowdiest towns in the U.S., still a U.S. legend out of which new legends would grow...
Germs. An entirely new food source with which Burkholder has been experimenting is certain bacteria found in human intestines and microorganisms that grow on cheese. He discovered that these bacteria, cultivated in a solution of salts, glucose and other materials, produce considerable amounts of useful vitamins...
...that of inter-House eating privileges, which have been discontinued this summer. The University has withheld this privilege from the students in order to encourage the individual's making friends in the House in which he live. "Actually," states the Council statement, "it has made many old friendships grow weaker, and has prevented the establishment of many new ones...