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Word: growed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bride of a year (Dorothy McGuire) whose architect husband (Donald Cook) has established her in a Connecticut farmhouse de luxe. She is also childishly established in an attachment to her mother. It takes pregnancy and the knowledge that her mother has an incurable cancer to begin to grow Claudia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan, Feb. 24, 1941 | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...Civil War. Virginia is the name-yassuh. That's the name of the picture showing at the Met this week and there are a lot of wrong horses in the picture, too. Fred MacMurray is a good old Irish southern gentleman who loves to see the tobacco grow and the young fillies fill out. He wants to keep Virginia for the folks who love Virginia. Yassuh. He can keep Virginia if it is the same state that Madeline Carrol comes back to. She comes back to sell the ole homestead, but the feel of the good earth under her fingernails...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 2/21/1941 | See Source »

...medium distances are also fairly strong with Tim Coggeshall and Paul Alken running in the 600 and Charlie Eberhard and Alan Pifer competing in the 300. In general, it seems that as the distances grow shorter, the Yardlings' ability also seems to fizzle, with the result that the dashes are unreliable and Exeter proved that the team must depend on the distances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 2/18/1941 | See Source »

...received and treated upon a slightly different basis from his fellow students. And although this difference is, fortunately, very slight and is limited to social activities (clubs, dances) the fact that at this time it exists at all is a threat to the future. This slight difference can grow; and if our country enters upon a period of social and economic upheaval, as well it might, this difference may grow to alarming proportions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE AVUKAH | 2/18/1941 | See Source »

...Admiral Collingwood who assisted Nelson at Trafalgar and succeeded him in the Mediterranean command later wrote home to his wife: "Tell me, how do the trees which I planted thrive? Is there shade under the oak tree for a comfortable summer seat? Do the poplars grow at the walk, and does the wall of the terrace stand firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: Battle of the Mediterranean | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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