Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young children grow faster mentally in the cool fall and winter months than in the warmer seasons...
...Roosevelt did not expect that Franklin would become a politician. "I hoped, she said, "that he would grow up to be a fine, upright man, respected in his home and in his own community - I hoped that he would grow up to be like his father." She once wanted him to become a diplomat, but she followed his rise in politics with devoted interest. When Franklin was elected President of the United States, she said simply: "I know he'll do his best...
...rare bright spells Jane, so rain-weary she wanted to leave, slipped into a dark red swim suit, plunged into chilly Lake Crescent. Sometimes she chopped wood for the fireplace. For exercise the Secretary took hikes among the giant trees, where the wet ferns grow head-high and the epochs-old windfalls of trees are 50 feet high and as solid as a stone fort. Once they went salmon fishing-a pure public-relations gesture from Honest Harold, who loathes the water and once grumbled at riding on the President's yacht Potomac with a crack...
...century before U.S. farmers took even a faint interest in them, the first soybeans were brought to this country by an amateur horticulturist named Dr. James Mease. "The soybean is adapted to Pennsylvania," he observed, "and should be cultivated." But Europe (where they are hard to grow) and America (where they grow easily) alike ignored the soybean until the Russo-Japanese War left Japan with a surplus of Manchurian beans to dump somewhere. In 1908 the fabulous banker-merchant clan of Mitsui shipped 2,000 tons to England, where cottonseed and linseed oils were momentarily scarce. Soybean oil proved...
Green Manure & Rabbits. Soybeans grow well anywhere corn and cotton grow, so the U.S. corn and cotton belts are the U.S. soybean belt (see map, p. 40). In crop rotation they fit neatly into the place of oats, making a four-year cycle of corn, soybeans, wheat, clover. They are an ideal catch crop where early seedings of other crops have failed and will grow in the 100 to 120 days between a late spring harvest and a fall planting. They can be planted any time from corn-planting time (about April 15 on) to midsummer, a great convenience...