Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...distributing good cheap books, and it looked as though the new President of Venezuela's first representative government in generations would be Rómulo Gallegos Freire, a revered old novelist. A nation, most of whose citizens believe that the way to cure a cold is to grow a beard, found itself saying : "We've always had a grand future. Now we have a chance to make the future the present...
Publicity-wise Yankee President Larry MacPhail, who knew better, let the talk grow. He had picked his manager two weeks ago. This week, with great ado, he let the world in on his little secret. Shrewd Stanley ("Bucky") Harris, 49, known in the trade as a gentleman and a base-hit scholar, will run the Yankees...
Another husband-&-wife team, John and Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, who bought Phoenix's weekly Shopping News in February, had just announced a small expansion of their own. Rechristened the Arizona Times, their throwaway now comes out twice a week. When it will grow into a daily they have not said, but one thing goes without saying: it will not be a Republican paper...
Tentatively planning to start road work this week, Thomas expects the squad to grow larger when the recently announced changes in the Freshman athletic program go into effect...
...more generous toward Russia. I did say that it might be important that such compromises as were actually concluded between the two countries should be generous to the European peoples directly concerned, and that they should be based on a willingness of both sides to see each other grow in prosperity, rather than on a mutual effort to increase each other's difficulties. In this connection I referred to the suggestions after the Paris Conference that a broader approach to peace-making was needed, as expressed by Britain's conservative statesman Mr. Anthony Eden, South Africa's Marshal Jan Christian...