Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...student of elementary bacteriology knows that it does not necessarily take months to grow the tubercle bacilli on the classical media...
...Belem, mouth of the Amazon, the trekkers were treated to pep talks on the romance of the jungle, shown how to cut the bark of the hevea (rubber tree), and then pushed into the jungle. Disillusion came fast. The hevea did not grow in stands; sometimes the trees were miles apart. Dwellings were mostly mud huts which the men built themselves in tall forests through which the sunlight never entered. Flesh-eating piranha fish kept them from river baths. Snakes bit them. The atabrine that the U.S. sent down to combat malaria was stolen by middlemen...
...Chamber of Deputies when Mussolini dissolved it, never collaborated with the Fascists. Italy well remembered the election speech of this last pre-Fascist President of the Chamber in 1920: "All shall feel their love for this our land-cradle of us all and deathbed of our fathers-grow more tender as crisis threatens. . . ." Scattered critics complained that "he never did anything bad [because] he never did anything at all," that he was a man "with no passions." But even the rockbound royalists of his native Naples now supported "De Nicola's republic...
...week Dart carried this plan even further. He put the 10,000 independent Rexall stores, which hold exclusive franchises for United's products, on an equal footing with the company-owned chain stores. United will now help finance the expansion programs of any affiliated druggists who want to grow, hopes thus to build Dart's chain of super drugstores...
They are the uncompromising writers. As they grow up, they go on looking at people and things as they did when they were children, with a certain ulterior fixity of attention. The nervous and jovial object in the living room is Uncle Alfred, yes; but they cannot let it go at that; neither can they stop trying to define other things they see and feel. They are the writers who are born artists, and early in life this is apt to be a troublesome condition. It is a fact that they might write something exciting, one day to be regarded...