Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Approximately 675 students will register today in historic Memorial Hall to become members of a Freshman class which bids well to grow by September to one of the largest classes in the 300 years of Harvard history, if not the largest...
...succeeding abroad. ... I resent the patronizing air of persons who find in my plain belief in freedom a sign of immaturity. If it is boyish to believe that a human being should live free, then I'll gladly arrest my development and let the rest of the world grow up. ... I believe in freedom with the same burning delight, the same faith, the same intense abandon which attended its birth on this continent more than a century and a half ago. I am writing my declaration rapidly, much as though I were shaving to catch a train. Events abroad...
...with food as a major weapon. On the home front fats are turned into high explosives for the Wehrmacht's arsenal, apples become alcohol for fuel, releasing high-grade fuel for the Luftwaffe's planes, milk refineries spill out lubricating oil for the submarine fleets. Farmers grow what they are told to grow, and the soybean (twice the strength of meat at a quarter the price) is the armed forces' basic ration. It is mixed into almost every dish the soldiers eat and, Food suggests, may even be Hitler's vaunted secret weapon...
Constantly, the Commandomen in their home stations champ for more and bigger action. Often they grow impatient while their superiors at Lord Louis' headquarters master the details which must precede a raid. New recruits constantly arrive at the highland camps; replacements must be continuous, because the Commandos' losses are inevitably high. But the veterans of the Lofotens and Boulogne, the few who returned from St. Nazaire, the new men waiting for their first raid-all have a constant refrain between jobs. "Why," they ask, "are we waiting...
...ammonia (NH3) - a discovery of Shell Chemical Co. The gas is allowed to escape from steel cylinders into irrigation waters, where it dissolves and is carried into every part of California or chards, rice fields, truck farms. These un usual amounts of quickly available nitrogen cause the plants to grow with startling speed. Ever since Shell's cautious introduction of this gaseous fertilizer, growers' demand for it has far exceeded the supply. But now Shell's ammonia must be shipped to munitions plants...