Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rumors that the Russians now have an atomic bomb began to grow. They will doubtless continue to proliferate. It is obviously to Russia's advantage to encourage such rumors, and some Russian agents have, in fact, encouraged them. (In all probability these reports are false. The U.S. Government may or may not know when Russia makes a Bomb, but the minute it tests one U.S. War Department detection devices will record that fact...
...voluntary levelling of racial barriers in collegiate sports is of an importance almost impossible to overestimate. Here is an area of activity common to every section. Here is no vested interest with a stake in preserving the status quo. Here is a small beginning from which great good may grow...
...Guaratero, a converted five-story hotel, and Sarria, a group of 17 Quonset huts. A curly-haired Pole, 19, announced proudly that he was a tractorista, that he was ready to start work on one of the cooperative farm colonies organized by the Government in the fertile interior to grow corn, potatoes, beans, rice, coffee, tobacco. An Italian with a shy little wife and black-eyed little girl was to go to a privately owned hacienda in Carabobo. Another, a bank clerk in Italy, had a job as a hotel waiter. Said he: "You have to start somewhere...
...oceanographers study the depths of the Pacific, and at Lick Observatory on Mt. Hamilton, Cal astronomers scan the stars. The university operates the atom-bomb city of Los Alamos, N.Mex. It owns ranches, waterworks, apartment buildings, forests, and the world's biggest cyclotron. On its 10,000 acres grow tomatoes, peaches, oranges, olives, avocados, alfalfa. A man can get frostbite or burn to a crisp without leaving university premises. The university employs 12,000 professors, janitors, secretaries and swineherds. It will spend $36,990,000 this year to run its eight campuses...
Sole consolation during these preliminary sessions is the recollection of former aquatic triumphs, and, fortunately, there is more to think about than last year's varsity loss to Yale. This summer several of Ulen's men did not pause to let the barnacles grow under their feet, writing their names on national and Canadian record books...