Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Over the broad Midwest prairies the harvest spilled northward in a bright golden wave. Last week it brought its bounty to this little farm near Lincoln, Neb., where War Veteran Fred A. Liebers, his wife and their husky son grow wheat and oats, tend their dairy cows and chickens, and feed part of the world...
...owns the acre of land used for the project, brought along a -year-old self-raking reaper for use in the harvesting. Figy came to inspect the wheat which in its first harvesting had multiplied 50-fold, almost twice Michigan's average. So rapidly did the wheat grains grow that Hayden calls them "dynamic kernels." Next year, Hayden expects to harvest from 15 to 20 acres...
...Thus when Standard bought the Loudon Packing Co. (V8 Vegetable Juice) last March, the Loudons insisted on cash, but when General Foods bought out Snider Packing at about the same time, only common stock changed hands. Expansionist Adams, whose stock phrase is "some day we've got to grow some," figures that his fiscal contraction should enable Standard Brands to expand...
...personal interview with the Devil. When Lubitsch's delicate invention lags, many spectators will be only too glad to concentrate on the Eastern beauty of Gene Tierney as the one true love of Ameche's life. Had Ameche died 20 years earlier, audiences would laugh no less, grow less weary...
...light which justifies the phrase "crack of dawn"); dawn, western horizon (an upper glow, quite different); fire at sea (a glow unmistakable once seen); thunder showers far off; gunfire ("Here's a cruiser coming at you," explained the CPO instructor, and the class watched the tiny, stabbing flashes grow brighter...