Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard to distinguish between pity and contempt when I read a statement like Mrs. Elmore's -"I am childless from choice" [TIME, March 10]-pity because she will never know or understand the pride and great happiness that can come only from watching one's own children grow and develop; contempt for her intolerance and ignorance and unsurpassed selfishness...
...eventual goal of industrial harmony cannot be attained by a series of step gap measures. In many cases the issue is as much sociological as economic. Workers grow dissatisfied with their jobs because the worker has become just another handle on a machine. No legislative flat can create a system in which each worker feels that he is making a contribution to society and that he is a necessary part of the nation's life. Only through a lengthy process of trial and error methods, worked out by labor and management leaders in each plant or industry, will on acceptable...
...morning and afternoon workouts, which began on Monday and lasted through Saturday, trying to find the right man for the right slot in his Varsity boat--not seeing how fast the brawniest eight men could propel themselves through the water. As the crew candidates--everybody is still a candidate--grow tougher, the stroke goes up, but from the pre-vacation beat of 24 or 26, the maestro of the slides and stretchers has never pushed things above 30 to the minute...
Someplace, always, rounds have dimples in their tops like apples. My balloon has a gathered place. Apples are round and red sometimes. They start little on trees and grow up inside their skins like people. Ellen used to be an apple baby She's not red yet and on her big round tummy She has a bellybutton...
...brothers. Hard-working William, a churchgoer and Shakespeare-reader, once kept his Rolls-Royce in his garage until July so that he would have to pay only half price for a license. Easygoing Robert, 57, plays gin rummy every afternoon, turned down a minister last week who promised to grow a beard if Robert would come to Sunday service. They run the business themselves with little top help from outside, gross an estimated $4,500,000 a year...