Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...onetime newsman, friendly as an Airedale pup, Furniture Merchant Monroney arrived in Congress four years ago from Oklahoma City. To grow up as a good Congressman he listened, kept his mouth shut, studied hard, said nothing until he had something to say. What he said then usually made sense. This week earnest Mike Monroney stood up in Congress, brushed back his mop of hair, peered at his colleagues, and let them have...
Pyrethrum powder, a standard insecticide which is made from a certain chrysanthemum plant, used to be imported largely from Japan. In recent years coffeegrowers in Britain's Kenya Colony in Africa have cultivated the plant, now grow enough for their own use and the whole U.S. besides-if the U.S. can get it. Chemists, however, have discovered ways to stretch the pyrethrum supply by adding "synergistic" compounds-sesamin from sesame oil and asarinin from the southern prickly-ash bark-which make a more poisonous blend than pyrethrum alone...
...Pandiculate for Health! Grow Tall! Get Well! Be Young!" Exuberant ads like this, running in health-fad magazines since 1914, have proclaimed the virtues of a spine-stretching device called the "Pandiculator." The Post Office last fortnight barred the promoter of this fraud from using the U.S. mail. A rectangular box about four feet long, worked on the principle of a medieval rack, the Pandiculator has T-shaped iron posts at each end, one fixed, the other movable on a cable pulley system. To pandiculate, all a gull had to do was lie down on the box, strap his head...
...Will vicious black markets spring up? Will untold rackets-unrecorded cash transactions, special surcharges for prompt delivery, etc.-such as are already gaining headway, grow and flourish...
Thousands of years of happy reign be thine; Rule on, my lord, till what are pebbles now, By age united to mighty rocks shall grow, Whose venerable sides the moss doth line...