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Word: growed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that matter, who gives a particular hang about New York politics anyhow? Here in Indiana they grow politicians by the bushel, and good ones, too. New York is just one of 48 states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1942 | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

This is only one of a dozen new problems since nearly two million women have gone to work in plane plants and other war industries. Some of the new problems -which are going to grow before 5,000,000 more women get war jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANPOWER: Sex in the Factory | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...oystermen worry more about labor than about volume. From Long Island (where 25% of U.S. oysters are cultivated) and from the Chesapeake-Delaware Bay area (where 60% grow naturally) thousands of the industry's 65,000 workers have traipsed off to defense plants. To get men back wages have been bid up 15%. U.S. No. 1 oysterer, Bluepoints Co. (General Foods subsidiary on L.I.), will smash the immemorial "no-wimmen" tradition, hire women for shucking, packing, other inside work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: A Few Oysters R Back | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...hands of Joseph Stalin is more wartime authority, both political and military, than is wielded by any of his allies-President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill or Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. As Premier, Defense Commissar and Secretary of the Communist Party, Stalin is shouldered with domestic and international responsibilities which grow with each German step into Russia. Last week Stalin sought someone to share his burdens. As First Deputy Defense Commissar he chose a man who, until two years ago, was an unknown quantity to a non-Russian world: General Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Stalin's Choice | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

Meanwhile an army of 4,000 men has for several weeks been uprooting ragweed in New York City, where it is now a legal offense to let the weed grow. Similar campaigns are under way in other towns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Ragweed Fallacy | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

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