Word: growed
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...senior class. More significant still, we mark also the departure of many members of Harvard College whose academic course is far from finished. To be sure, there is nothing unique in what is happening here in Cambridge. Throughout the nation our college empty so that our armies may grow in strength. Throughout the nation able-bodies young men of eighteen and nineteen years of age are being called to join the armed forces already fighting on many fronts and on many seas. For more than a year now every day has witnessed an increasing impact of the war on academic...
Formal education for the present you leave aside, but you will grow in wisdom nonetheless. Now knowledge will come to you by virtue of the sacrifices that you will be asked to make. Having been ready to run all risks for freedom, you will comprehend it as those of us at home cannot. On some subsequent commencement day you will return with the understanding born of great events. On that occasion it will be said to you as of the returning Harvard soldiers...
Concert artists, like dogs, always grow to resemble their patrons. Most of today's (examples: Gieseking, Casadesus, Heifetz, Serkin) resemble bank presidents or New Deal intellectuals. Most of yesterday's (examples: Paderewski, de Pachmann) resembled haughty princes of the blood. One lordly, athletic survivor of the time when artists wore the royal purple is orange-whiskered Polish Pianist Moriz Rosenthal, pupil of Franz Liszt, who in Manhattan last week was recovering from his 80th birthday celebration...
...most important reason is bigger consumption: the Army & Navy are now eating some 200 million lb. a year-and will need more as the armed forces grow. Huge amounts of butter are being delivered for Lend-Lease-a total of 8.5 million lb. between April 1941 and October 1942, of which 5 million lb. were shipped in October alone. And U.S. civilian demand, said the Agriculture Department, could go up to 2,600 million lb. (from 2,300 million in 1941) under current ceiling prices because of the nation's increased buying power...
Watch the Pony Grow- William Hall...