Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Permit me, however, to elucidate one point which you mentioned in passing. . . . I believe that this point is the sorest spot, the most serious problem confronting the Greece of today. I quote: "The old ability to make two drachmas grow where one grew before seems to have sputtered out." Right; the lack of individual enterprise-or rather, the complete reluctance to indulge in it . . . is the most perplexing reality in Greece's present national life. It is also the most important single factor in that country's current stagnation. No reconstruction, no rehabilitation, not even a simple personal...
...article on the departure of the Royal Family for South Africa . . . [TIME, Feb. 10], I think it's about time America began to grow up in its ideas on the British throne in general, and what it means...
...country until a provisional government evolves. Then it will be up to the Russians to show that they have done as much for the northern half, and merge the two. But as long as the steel wall remains, the truncated economy of the south must be made to grow new industrial limbs. The U.S. will ship in equipment and supplies. For this year, at least, it will also have to ship in food because of crop failures and lack of fertilizer...
Pressure flying continues to grow more & more exact. Nowadays, airplanes in flight send hourly weather reports to the CAA's station WSY in New York. WSY edits the information and broadcasts its essentials at 25-minute intervals to other planes. By merely listening and figuring, a pilot can tell where to find the friendliest tail winds...
...acre site on Long Island which used to be Camp Upton, a vast World War II reception center, is now mostly a collection of slatternly abandoned barracks. But its flatlands have a new destiny: on them will grow a monster of the atomic age-a workshop for the strange, powerful, ominous machines of modern nuclear physics...