Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...useful as well as ornamental." Now a squat 64, his round brown eyes stare frankly at the world from above a salt-&-pepper beard which is bushy enough for a Lower Slobbovian. "I shaved it off in 1917," he remembers, "and Great God! For three weeks until I could grow it back, I was the Invisible...
Long ago, when he was an unknown schoolboy in Spain, Dali had let his hair grow in order to resemble Raphael's self portrait. Now, his ambition was to "recreate Raphael" in oils. But instead of a Raphaelesque Madonna, Dali had chosen for his "masterpiece" the Greek myth of Leda (whom Zeus seduced, in the guise of a swan). Dali's up-to-the-minute title: Leda Atomica. "Le head," explained Dali in his scrambled English, "ees the most finish. Le figure weel remain très clair. Le rest weel become très nocturne. Weel appear...
Whether the trend toward monopoly had been checked for long was open to question. The department merely noted that smaller companies usually grow faster during booms-and would shrink faster if a recession or depression comes along...
...depend on them for food, and hate the feeling of dependence, but also because it is the one class in Poland that has a physical basis for resistance. Shopkeepers can be squeezed, intellectuals intimidated, businessmen nationalized, and factory workers fired-but farmers can hold out longer because they grow their own crops and thus are relatively self-sufficient...
...Japan surrendered, native Christian leaders requested an immediate shipment of 100,000 Nipponese Bibles, and now 500,000 New Testaments and 400,000 Gospel portions have been sent through American contributions. One World, One Book--this is the philosophy of the Society. They see the dream of world brotherhood grow real as the merchant in Thailand, the German student, the Arabian shiek, and the African Zulu sit down simultaneously to read the words of Luke, ii, 14: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace, good will towards...