Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cattle fed on synthetic urea like it and grow fat. This announcement from the University of Wisconsin last week concluded its five-year study of the nutritive value of synthetic urea, opened a new era in feeds, perhaps in foods. Urea is a reasonably priced, simple nitrogen compound made chemically from nothing more than ammonia and carbon dioxide. Not a protein, synthetic urea is so closely related to protein that it can replace a major part of the vegetable proteins in cattle feed. Urea is manufactured in large quantity for use in many types of plastics and as a rich...
...task arms and the price of victory grow greater. The early summer's burst of optimism seems childish now; with German troops in the Caucasus, and the Afrika Korps poised in Egypt, prophecies of victory have a bitter taste...
...Seeing what I saw out there was an eye-opener for anyone who had watched a generation grow up in pacifist isolation" is the nearest he came to putting it in words. "Neither Americans nor any other people pay the ultimate sacrifice by diving their planes into aircraft carriers unless they believe in something." Sherrod got to Australia in its darkest hour, when most of the Anzac troops were still 7,000 miles away fighting in the Middle East, when U.S. aid was hardly more than a promise and the Japs were expected to sweep south from Java...
...village smith of Landgrove, Vt. (pop. 64) is Samuel Robinson Ogden, 46, Swarthmore graduate, architect, World War I veteran, former legislator, author of a book on gardening (How to Grow Food for Your Family) and schoolteacher. He is also a colorful character and the insurgent candidate for the Republican nomination for his State's lone seat in the House...
...fall while more than 40,000 officer candidates each year are denied the college education vital to their training. Inter-service competition in the nation's college is, apparently, to continue, for the report never considers an over-all scheme for procurement of military and civilian personnel. Meanwhile deferments grow longer as the services strive to fill uncoordinated quotas...