Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...valley, more power than all Mexico now produces will flow from the four dams. Reclaimed swamps, flood lands and arid areas soon to be irrigated will be opened to farmers. The region's present population of 170,000 poor bush-grubbers, Engineer de Alba hopes, will grow to more than 600,000 when his work is done...
...keeper of one of the chief U.S. medical moneybags-Raymond B. Fosdick, president of the Rockefeller Foundation. In his annual report, Fosdick observed that medicine's philanthropists have been giving too much of their money for "magic-wand" research, too little for training physicians. Said he: "We cannot grow orchids in a greenhouse that lacks coal...
Just short of Eliot's meat and drawbridge the wayfaring Freshman may find refuge in the hostel of undergraduate vitality, midst the Georgian stretches of Kirkland House. Sacrificing towers, gothic frills and the trimmings to the more pretentious castles along Mt. Auburn Street, Kirkland has watched its legend grow from the strong soil of diverse interests that make up this cosmopolitan House. More than any other, Kirkland has managed to fuse its genuine cross-section of Harvard into a tightly-working group that yearly supports its teams with periodic rallies, and its activities with the only House yearbook to grace...
...March issue, "Radditudes" has become a magazine. It used to seem more like an experiment: readers weren't so interested in getting forty-five cents worth of reading enjoyment as they were in backing a good thing, in giving what was an embryonic collection of writings a chance to grow into something better and more permanent. "Radditudes" has responded to this philanthropic support. It has reduced its price to a reasonable twenty-five cents and increased the interest value of its appearance by throwing some color on its cover and some cartoons and futuristic are through its contents, thereby making...
...little office on Montgomery Street," said the official biography, "the Examiner's new owner seemed a whirlwind to the sleepy staff. He was everywhere: supervising stories and headlines, scribbling sketches for the cartoonists, writing editorials-breathing life into his foundling. . . . Papers, unlike Topsy, don't 'just grow.' What germinated and nurtured the Examiner shaped the whole course of American journalism...