Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Students, apparently still unsatisfied with a ruling which had abolished fraternities in 1855, watched Ivy grow and decided that its organizers "had something." Tiger, Cap and Gown, and other social groups were soon organized, and by 1900, Prospect Street had become tabbed "The Street," and almost half the college belonged to clubs...
Significant about Harvard and Radcliffe is the fact the neither school, despite its increased financial cares, has curtailed any of its main facilities. Instead, both schools have been able to continue expansion; libraries, housing, and research facilities to name a few items, have continued to grow...
...Dismal Grownups. From New York, Nehru went to Boston, visited Harvard, M.I.T. and Wellesley, where 1,700 college girls gave him a cheery reception. He wished, he told them, that he did not have to make so many speeches in the U.S. "Grownup people like myself," he said, "grow more & more dismal, talking dismal subjects...
...started to make woolen clothes, many thousands of years ago, some moths began to change their feeding habits. With a good deal of difficulty, says Moncrieff, they learned to digest wool, have not yet completely adapted themselves to their unnatural diet. Researchers have proved that moth larvae grow faster when fed on fish meal or casein, and that unless they get vitamin B they never reach maturity. Vitamin B, plentiful in dirty clothes, is what a moth is after when he chews up a gravy spot...
...More important than greater consumption will be the rise in the use of services," Slichter concluded. "Medical services will be used far more . . . the proportion of people completing high school and spending some time in college will rise . . . travel will grow in popularity...