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Word: growed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...language problems grow out of news-gathering and news-writing: Readers overseas write us in their native languages asking us to do all sorts of things for them-to find a long-lost brother in Wisconsin, to get an interview with President Truman, to tell them how to buy a Fifth Avenue trousseau for a daughter bride-to-be. Two girls in our Letters Department spend most of their time just translating and trying to follow through on such requests...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 2, 1946 | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...chemical just put on the market is an artificial frost for potatoes. When late potatoes reach maturity, farmers pray for frost to kill the vines. If it does not come, a lot of evils may. Potatoes grow lopsided, bumpy. Juicy vines clog the digging machinery, and blight spores from their still green leaves may infect the harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Chemical Frost | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

Another triumph: production and isolation in pure crystalline form of the most deadly biological poison known to man, the toxin secreted by Clostridium botulinum, type A, bacteria which sometimes grow in home-canned vegetables...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Planned Pestilence | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

...neglected. Diseases of cattle, even of chickens, were explored. The scientists cultured the smuts, rusts and blights that strike down the farmer's crops. They studied more than 1,000 crop-killing chemicals. Some of them, sprayed from the air "in infinitesimal dilution," allowed the crops to grow for a while, apparently healthy, but they yielded no harvest. In biological war, slow hunger would mop up the field behind quick death by pestilence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Planned Pestilence | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

Would such a privately owned synthetic industry continue to grow and improve? The committee hoped so, but as an aid it favored 1) a subsidy on rubber articles which contained synthetic, and 2) specifications requiring the use of synthetic in all essential articles in order to improve U.S. know-how for emergencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War Babies, Care & Feeding Of | 8/12/1946 | See Source »

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