Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvard's topnotch Slavic department. But his presence here raises two pertinent questions: (1) If Professor Ernest J. Simmons' appointment was terminated last year as an economy move, how can the University afford to import an expert to fill his shoes? And (2), since Slavic scholars don't grow on trees, what would have happened to the department if Professor Lednicki hadn't happened to be available...
Young Winnie Churchill's fabulous escape from Pretoria made him world-famous while he was still trying to prove he could grow whiskers. But the escape has a wider significance than that. It symbolizes Winston Churchill as Winston Churchill so aptly and lovingly symbolizes Great Britain's unwillingness to give up when apparently cornered...
...influenza, infantile paralysis, etc., measles is a virus disease. It is caused by some organism too small to be seen microscopically. Commonly considered a trifling ailment of childhood, it often brings on ear infections, mastoiditis, bronchopneumonia. Measles can be a serious problem in wartime, for isolated country boys often grow to maturity without getting measles or acquiring natural immunity, and catch it when herded into army camps. Among the U. S. forces in World War I, pneumonia following measles was a common cause of death...
...feet with as lame an opening meeting as the one held last night by the American Student Defense League, Harvard Chapter. But this League will not die soon, for it is undeniably riding the crest of a great wave of U. S. public opinion. It will last and probably grow, until no one will think any longer to ask the bothersome question, "What place is there for this group here?" Now, if ever, is the time to ask it, to inquire whether the League really seeks the utmost efficiency in defense, while still clinging to its stated "purpose of peace...
...earth's supplies of coal and oil were laid in, once for all, during the Carboniferous Age, 200 to 300 million years ago. Using them is like spending capital. But using coal and oil made from plants would be like spending income, since plants grow prodigally and all the time...