Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Down the ball from the mice and monkeys is a room full of moth pupas, with their brains cut out. The pupa is the animal inside a cocoon; and Assistant Professor Carroll M. Williams has found that it will live indefinitely but not grow when its brain is removed. He has kept pupas for months in animated suspension and then put their brains back, and they started growing where they left...
...world where a good many fathers blanch at the thought of another mouth to feed; and where "rejected" children grow up to spend their time & money on psychiatrists' couches, U.S. readers have jumped at the chance to meet a man like Frank Bunker Gilbreth. He told his bride straight off on their wedding day that he wanted a lot of children-at least a dozen. She liked the idea. Before his death in 1924, he had sired the twelve redheaded youngsters that he'd bargained for. And he had taken a keen interest in their upbringing...
...your cooperation. I hope you will work for a healthy labor union." To coal miners, he appealed, "I should like to ask you to produce much more." To the children of the Catholic Holy Mother Orphanage at Omura, he admonished, "Work hard, pray to Jesus Christ, and grow to be good...
...national game. In Buenos Aires, referees are sometimes hustled out under police escort lest they be torn limb from limb by the spectators. From Moscow to Melbourne, the action and drama of the game thrill crowds who consider American football slightly less exciting than watching grass grow...
Next season it was Armed. So small as a two-year-old that he was gelded "to make him grow some," Armed didn't see much of the race track until he was four. Then he began to take his bows. Still racing, Armed has won more money ($782,175) than any other gelding ever...