Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shapely, who instituted the first graduate School of Astronomy in this country shortly after taking office, ahs watched his trust grow from a small Summer House Hill station and a run-down observation post at Arequipa, Peru, to a vast net-work of the most modernly equipped outposts, situated for complete, continuous observation of all the heavens, and planned to cover the many divergent phases of modern Astronomy...
...Republic) used to say that the two parties were virtually indestructible because they were low-grade organisms, which had neither a brain nor a heart that could be stopped, and so you could cut them in half and the two halves would wiggle on and somehow grow together again...
...History, who has from the beginning headed the Faculty committee planning the regional studies, the University's program is entirely in the nature of an experiment. Nothing similar has ever been attempted on as large a scale, he claims. And as an experiment, he says, it will continue to grow and change as often as change seems necessary...
...Hooton (Why Men Behave Like Apes and Vice Versa), the girls learned how to pick a good husband. Thin men, the professor warned, are apt to be mumblers who hate people and tire easily. Two-fisted Atlases stamp around the house complaining about the lack of exercise; besides, they grow old young. The best husband-a nice, sociable type who appreciates the comforts of home-is the fat man, or "butterball type...
...Strecker's prescription: let parents help children grow up by careful nourishment of traits that lead to maturity: "1) a desire to move, 2) a readiness and willingness to imitate, 3 ) an alert response to suggestion, 4) a reasonable amount of the love of power, 5) a strong leavening of curiosity, 6) a dash of childhood savagery, and 7) a spark of romancing...