Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just lie down and take it. Some of them develop such resistance that they can even multiply in the presence of the enemy. Up to now, laboratory workers have been unable to prove how a resistant strain differs from a susceptible one of the same species. They look alike, grow alike, form the same kind of colonies...
Take Julian Crocker, for instance. This emotional Junior, who handled the hockey team through its super-successful season this winter, epitomizes all that a manager should be. To see Julian grow ecstatic over his beloved puck-handlers is like nothing in all this world. Arthur Sampson was so intrigued by all of Julian's spirit that he devoted two of his Herald columns to the Crocker legend--probably the first time in history a college manager was ever so glorified...
Dick Eckert and Harry Poole, who pull Harvard's basketball strings, managerially speaking, adopt a middle-of-the-road attitude. Eckert sometimes has semi-fanatical tendencies, being a hoopster of no mean proportions himself, and has been known at times to grow irate when his worthies have been blasphemed by local college journals, but Dick is more prone to tend efficiently to his duties, as is Harry. And God help the opposing manager who tries to jockey with the time clock. When the Harvard five went out west this winter, it was Eckert who wrote the stories for local papers...
...They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them...
...Monte's ad urging Americans to grow Victory Gardens. The woman in the ad is rolling up her sleeves and saying: "I'm going to have more fruits & vegetables than my ration book allows. . . . And I'm going to do it the patriotic way." Heinz on point rationing: one ad, entitled "Food Buying Simplified!", offered an educational rationing budget form...