Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of malnutrition, many of Europe's children will grow to manhood weak and stunted. Rickets will cripple some forever; tuberculosis will make others invalids. The psychological effect is incalculable...
...decisions far removed from the test-tube and University classroom. His firm contention in 1942 that the bomb could shorten the war came at a time when high military officials considered the whole scheme expendable. It was a force behind President Roosevelt's decision to allow the project to grow beyond the blueprint stage. Later in 1942, Conant, as a member of the Baruch Committee, was asked to find an answer to the rubber, shortage, while, as a member of the still-secret N.D.R.C., he was trying to use the same dwindling stocks of gasoline and construction steel (base materials...
...shrewd, soft-spoken Confucian. As chairman of the Council, China's mellow statesman seemed to remember the wisdom of the Analects: "Men are born pretty much alike, but through their habits they gradually grow further and further apart from each other." Imperturbable, patient, conciliatory, Dr. Quo sought to bridge the chasm of habits. His logic was simple and overwhelming (when Gromyko asked why the chairman had halted discussion, Dr. Quo answered: "I have no more speakers on my list...
What if a few hundred thousand men huddled together in a small corner of the world had done their utmost to disfigure it . . . so that no green thing, not even a blade of grass could grow; had . . . trimmed all the trees and driven away every animal and every bird-in spite of all, spring was still spring in every town. . . . The birches, the wild cherry trees and the poplars unfolded their gummy and fragrant leaves, the bursting buds of the lindens expanded, the jackdaws, the sparrows and the pigeons were busy and joyous over their nests. . . . Plants, birds, insects...
...consensus of entomologists is that termite queens are egg-laying machines (as many as 4,000 eggs a day). In some species, the queens' abdomens grow gigantic, like fat, helpless grubs nearly four inches long. Around the queen, worker courtiers gather, stroking her tight-stretched body wall, feeding her helpless mouth, carrying off her eggs. The king's only duty is keeping his consort fecundated...