Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...indignation grow, an the influence of the schools because greater. On April 17, 1939, the CRIMSON threw the first bombshell, when it published a blazing editorial labelled "The Tutoring School Racket," which exploded with...
...exploiting the rich, freak coal, iron and limestone deposits. Called "The Magic City," Birmingham spent its youth in filth, poverty, lawlessness. At one time it was called The Murder Capital of the World. When control of T. C. I. switched to U. S. Steel in 1907, Birmingham began to grow up. Slowly, painfully, the town spread out, cleaned up. Bursting with faith in the city, T. C. I. spent $29,000,000 on expansion in 1936, has spent more millions since. Today, Birmingham has a score of skyscrapers, a church for every 700 citizens, a 53-foot cast-iron statue...
Doctors do not know the cause of cancer, but scientists have produced tumors by rubbing mice with certain coal-tar substances and synthetic chemicals. The great research problem now is to grow tumors in mice with extracts from human cancer victims. Six weeks ago Dr. John Frederick Menke of Stanford University Hospital announced that he had injected mice with fat-soluble essences from human breast cancers. For the first time in cancer history, he claimed, two of the mice had grown tumors. But his experiments have not yet been confirmed...
...battle rages, the white cells may be outnumbered. The linings of blood vessels become sticky, and white cells cling to them like flies to fly paper. As the red clumps grow larger, the liquid part of the blood turns thick and sludgy, and the heart is harder and harder put to it to pump against the blockade. When circulation stagnates, the body's oxygen is cut off. and finally the heart stops...
...believes, a matter of the ease or difficulty with which body heat is disposed of. In cold, dry climates the disposal is easy. This stimulates people, tends to make them grow faster, to protect them against infections. In the Dark Ages, when the Temperate Zone's climate was much warmer than now, wine grapes grew in England, cereals in Iceland, men were poor specimens-short, sluggish, easy victims of plague...