Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...equities close to the meterboxes, while Standard would rid itself of perhaps $35,000,000 in debt. If allowed to keep Pittsburgh and the Midwest, the Standard system would have a net property investment of around $470,000,000. Smaller, it would nevertheless be stronger, better able to grow up with its two chosen regions...
...this stockpile will look like a serious official blunder. No real alternative is to increase the use of reclaimed rubber from its present rate of 28.7% of consumption. For the supply of reclaimable rubber would eventually disappear if there were no fresh rubber imports. Remaining alternatives: 2) to grow rubber in this hemisphere, or 3) to mass-produce it synthetically...
Rural, red-faced Stewart Andes Maples, a Rutherford Countian, let his dental plate fall twice as he inveighed against "infernal, shameful roadhouses," click-clacked his support of Roosevelt "as a good Samaritan." Back snapped Mrs. W. C. Branch, "I have a little boy . . . who asks for nickels like they grow on trees. Mr. Roosevelt reminds me of my little...
...repair torn veins and arteries is a big problem for surgeons. For broken blood vessels grow limp, like a flat tire, and it is difficult to spread the severed ends into tubular shape so they can be stitched together. Some 30 years ago, Dr. Alexis Carrel, then teaching at Chicago, overcame this difficulty by stuffing torn blood vessels with vaseline. But this technique was so troublesome that few surgeons have followed it. Last week famed Physiologist Anton Julius Carlson of the University of Chicago announced that one of his medical students, Sidney Smith, had finally made the two ends meet...
...newspapers are able to give a conscienceless verbal cross section of all that happens ... an incessant equalizing of all tensions is created and humanity becomes accustomed continually to accept a world of news in place of realities which no one has time or is minded any more to let grow large and heavy within them. I never was and cannot any longer become a newspaper reader...