Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sculling coach Blake Dennison, who came to Weld in 1923, has seen sculling grow from a mere 85 rowers a day to the present 360 average. In the past, 100 scullers was a big number, but today 530 is the record. Dennison states that the Weld Boat Club has probably taught more people to row than any other place in the country...
...Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then just the Squire of Hyde Park, said in a particularly encouraging letter: "I feel certain TIME will grow in popularity. It is interesting all the way through and unbiased as far as it is possible for red-blooded Americans to make it so." Mr. Roosevelt closed with a friendly suggestion that we ought to try to get the nation's newsstands to handle it (as late as 1929 TIME'S newsstand sale was only 35,000; this week it will probably...
...savage coastal jungles there are many wild rubber trees. In the remote mountains and inland plains grows the cinchona tree (quinine); there grow also fique, pita and malba, all tough fibrous plants. With Colombia's aid the U.S. may replace some of the rubber, quinine and hemp lost to the United Nations in the Far East...
...first condition [of free speech] is that the individual have something to say. Literacy is a prerequisite of free speech, and gives it point. Denied education, denied information, suppressed or enslaved, people grow sluggish; their opinions are hardly worth the high privilege of release. Similarly, those who live in terror or in destitution, even though no specific control is placed upon their speech, are as good as gagged. There can be no people's rule unless there is talk... words, ideas in a never-ending stream, from the enduring wisdom of the great and the good to puniest thought...
...minimum dosage toward a maximum, aiming to produce enough ability to pass these tests and tone up the entire muscular systems of the students. After the present layoff for examinations, the remaining part of the summer conditioning will pick up where the first block ended and continue to grow more grueling...