Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somehow, but Americans knew not how, the fate of the U.S. was involved in this ghostly contest. Some time, though they knew not when, Hitler's triumphs were to stop, the unrest of the conquered countries was to grow, U.S. supplies to invaded countries would be enough, and the Nazis would go down. By some means, though they knew not what they were, the daily round of their own familiar U.S. life was made uneasy by the outcome...
...There ain't agoing to be no core," said Tom Sawyer, but he was 80 years ahead of the times. The first coreless, seedless apples known to science were discovered only last year. Weighing a plump quarter-pound each, they grow on a freak tree in Mrs. Libbie Wilcox's backyard in Huntington Park, Calif...
...much less $18,000 in rendering all possible aid in securing him not only a job, but a job suited to his capabilities and not one he will grab out of pure desperation after months of aimless searching. The Placement Bureau must be restored at once before the contacts grow cold and before '42 and future classes begin to regret not spending their last year at Katy Gibbs...
There was no attempt to scoop anyone else. In the Harvard Press Box any attempt would be the height of futility any-how. Six reporters are packed into a space designed for five; reporters spend a good bit of time sitting down and grow accordingly. It would be impossible not to read over the shoulder of your neighbor two down, and your next door pal can't even think without his brain waves vibrating in your ears...
...opposed the present trend towards big mechanized farms and proposed taxing them out of existence by graduating land taxes to penalize size. It wanted people with a farm background put on family-size farms. It also wanted factory workers encouraged to live on small rural homesteads where they could grow enough food to supplement their income and give their children the benefit of a country upbringing...