Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Michael J. Sullivan, councilman and counsellor to the good people of Cambridge, "I understand Harvard has been here quite a while--over 300 years in fact. Technology people are still children in Cambridge. We'll wait till they grow...
...religion as in politics. Any successful new system has got to be an organic outgrowth from the old one. Otherwise the new religion will be only a surface covering that can be taken off like you take off your coat at night. And to make the new religion grow organically out of the old, you've got to know the old inside out. . . . You've got to know the beliefs and customs of a people to know how they can best understand the Christian faith and accept it as their...
...thinking. They seemed to have no roots. He had stumbled upon General Education. He liked it. There were roots and there were teachers who seemed anxious to teach. It made him wish he had it to do all over again as he entered the yard to grow in wisdom. I. A. Richards spoke of the "Iliad" and the sources of western culture, communicating with a passion. Beer, the same Sam Beer who was once his Gov 1 section man in the basement of New Lecture Hall, was talking about western thought institutions in Social Sciences 2a. They never had added...
...Soares has his answers: Volta Redonda's location, halfway between the port of Rio and industrial Sao Paulo, is ideal for distribution. The Paraiba River furnishes an ideal water supply. Limestone (a necessity in steelmaking) is mined near by. In time, Soares expects subsidiary industries to grow up around Volta Redonda, turn it into a Brazilian Pittsburgh...
Mustard gas was a World War I terror. For World War II, chemists developed (but never used) a variation called "nitrogen mustard" (substituting nitrogen for sulphur). In studying defenses against the new product, they noticed that nitrogen mustard had a special affinity for cells that grow rapidly. Why not try it against cancer cells...