Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play is neither quite so good as the idea nor so breath-taking as Broadway's swoon over it. Its dream fantasias are much less outlandish than the dreams any psychoanalyst might encounter in a day's work, sometimes lack sparkle, occasionally grow flatulent. But the whole production, spinning from reality to its not too fantastic reveries on four revolving stages, is lovely to look at and delightful to hear. It has one dream of glamorous evening blue, another gilded dream of an Oriental fairy tale, a glittering dream of a circus that turns into a mild nightmare...
...adolescent must be given increasing responsibility to help him grow...
...already. Unfortunately, he was regally habituated to a cosmopolitan orbit. Producing around 12,000,000 bales a year, U. S. cotton growers never sold more than 8,000,000 (1940, a record) in the U. S. As long as the export market remains closed, the U. S. must either grow less cotton, or consume more...
...cotton industry that as far as the Department of Agriculture is concerned, America's choice has now been made. He reminded his audience that the decline of the U. S. farmers' export market long antedates Hitler: it began when the rest of the world began to grow corn, wheat & cotton of its own. Said the new Secretary: "There are two bales of cotton in the world today for every bale that will probably be used in the current marketing year. . . . That is one reason why I say we need agricultural adjustment and not just [crop] reduction...
...story book world we live in, if we just know where to find the stories. Harvard has had its Copey and Kitty and Irving Babbitt, its arch-patriotic presidents and its bad butter. Given time our section men, still damp behind the cars, will grow beards, and be venerable and beloved; but why wait so long? One of the best stories is to be had now, west end of the Indoor Athletic Building, Fencing Room...