Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...want to grow a garden? No; this time the Agriculture Department wants no radishy "Victory Gardens" in tindery back yards. Its advice to city dwellers: leave the gardens to fanners, sublimate the urge with flower boxes, spend the difference on Defense Bonds...
...enough to please. They have even done their bit of Hollywood, and a small group of them recently served as the main attraction at a meeting of the Jordan Marsh Chapter of the Ladies' Home Journal Sub-Deb Club. Nevertheless the frightful stories of persecutions continue to come and grow. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children should be informed...
...Though they spend their lives on the bottom of the sea, well protected from rain, oysters grow plump in rainy seasons, lean in droughts. So claimed the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station last week. Reason: rain washes minerals from the soil into sounds and ocean bays, where they fertilize the microscopic plants which oysters...
Sales Tax? Pressure is bound to grow for a general sales tax; even President Roosevelt, long its foe, said: "We may later be compelled to reconsider the temporary necessity of such measures." A sales tax is "painless," can be fabulously productive. But Senator Vandenberg is not the only man who thinks it would also set off a new spiral of wage demands, price increases, inflation...
...flies, they said, had conquered the flypaper. Little by little "fear began to grow in the conquerors, a fear that . . . one day they would crack and be hunted through the mountains like rabbits...