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Word: growed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last years of her determined, independent life, she rocked on the front porch of the old house, watching another generation grow up in the Lincoln Public school yard across the street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KANSAS: I Chose My Way | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...Stars Grow. One of the things which astronomers worry about is why most of the matter in the universe is clotted into widely separated stars. Why did it clot in the first place? And are the clots (stars) still forming out of shattered matter? At Madison, Dr. Lyman Spitzer of Yale told his theory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stargazers | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

...hearts must make him grow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Proletarian Proconsul | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...little or nothing to do with it; the alarm clock nature uses is the changing length of the day. Unconsciously, the animal's inner organism watches the duration of daylight. When the days have lengthened (or diminished) long enough, the reproductive organs of both sexes begin to grow. They are ready to function at the ideal mating season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Scientific Cupid | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...reasons:1) quarantine restrictions keep them out of most European countries, which grow a good many potatoes anyway; 2) in overseas shipping, handling costs and spoilage run high; 3) dehydrated potatoes cost about 25? a lb., as compared to 5? or 6? a Ib. for wheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Spuds, Spuds, Spuds | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

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