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Word: growed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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They are caused by high speed planes flying at 15,000 feet. Moisture forms from the plane's exhaust and also from the friction with the air. A fleet of planes would make a blanket of clouds of considerable substance, while individual planes form wisps which grow in size as they drift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'AIRPLANE CLOUDS' SEEN OVER BOSTON | 1/22/1941 | See Source »

Only one thing was left in the clearing: the statue of Marshal Foch. Perhaps, because the Marshal was a soldier, the Nazis meant to leave him there and let the forest grow up around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Last Memento | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

...call me." But World War II has merely speeded the shift from the oldtime hunting-parson philosophy. Forerunners of the change were the Bishop of Ely's effort in 1939 to turn his palace into an old folk's home ("we keep too many gardeners to grow too many vegetables to feed too many servants to make too many beds"); the 1937 move by a group of bishops and clergy to give up the mining royalties of the poverty-stricken northeast of England which went to the Church, because otherwise it "cannot hope to evangelize successfully a body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: For a New Society | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

They stayed till it was dark almost and saw the fire grow; and as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the city, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire. . . . It made me weep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: After the Fire | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

...belligerent power against another. . . . What I would like to say to our American friends ... is this: help us in the above interests to secure these weapons. We are, of course, ready to pay for what we get. And, in the second place, help us, should the blockade grow tighter, to secure the supply of foodstuffs which are essential to our people." Only the unfolding new year could answer the questions that were in men's hearts last week. But all the words of Kings and commoners, all the Happy-New-Year wishes, all the unspoken prayers of the dwindling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Anxious Ending | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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