Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News of the Battle of the Atlantic grew so bad in March that the British Admiralty decided to announce losses monthly instead of weekly. Last month the news appeared to grow better-losses were off 145,000 tons to 352,000-whereupon the contrary Admiralty announced it was going to cease regular announcements altogether...
Their announced reason: "The enemy has become increasingly reliant on our monthly figures to calculate the success of his newer methods of operation." Another possible reason: the British may expect results to grow progressively better, fear that good news might make U.S. aid a trickle, as bad had made it a flood...
This struggle made the biggest battlefront in World War II-everywhere over the earth between sea level and timber line, wherever things grow and men eat. The Battle of Food was being fought as bitterly as the Battle of the Atlantic, the Battle of Britain, the Battle of Russia. Not many men yet realized that victory in the other great battles would never be as conclusive as a victory in the Battle of Food. But to those who did realize it, the fact was as sharp as a hunger pang. In the U.S. there was as yet no general awareness...
...lives commendably close to his troops, a rugged soldier despite his 62 years, a great believer in spit-and-polish. They know and generally approve his dislike of sloppy soldiers, his decisive action (TIME, June 23) to clear his Second Army of incompetent officers so that its outfits can grow into first-class fighting units. They know him, too, as a commander too much preoccupied with small details...
...People grow out of the habit of going to movies. Chief reason : they get married, have babies, and spend more time at home. Ace cinemaddicts are 19-year-olds, who buy some 2,080,000 tickets weekly. Laggard are those over 30, who give the box office just 35% of its take. Typical movie goer is 27 years old, earning $28 a week...