Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Help small, strategically located parishes, already started, to grow faster...
...lies at Ipiutak on Point Hope, a bleak sandspit in the Arctic Ocean, where no trees and little grass survive endless gales at 30° below zero. But where houses lay more than 2,000 years ago, underlying refuse makes grass and moss grow greener. The scientists could easily discern traces of long avenues and hundreds of dwelling sites. A mile long, a quarter-mile wide, this ruined city was perhaps as big as any in Alaska today (biggest: Juneau...
...like silica case encloses a drop of protoplasm. In it chlorophyll magically manufactures organic matter out of sunlight, carbon dioxide and water. As this photosynthesis proceeds, diatoms multiply by splitting. Though each diatom is invisible, they outweigh in volume and importance all other sea plants combined, including seaweeds which grow as big as oaks...
...enemy should grow strong enough, as they could by taking Singapore, they could attack us and eventually make us fight. Until they are stronger, they are not likely to attack us; for the moment we are comparatively safe...
...William Edward Levis, board chairman of Owens-Illinois Glass Co., who inherited his business (the old Illinois Glass Co.), made it grow and prosper mightily...