Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Washington came the grim prediction of housing experts that the worst is yet to come. With demobilization rapidly increasing, the exodus of unemployed war workers from crowded industrial centers had not yet begun. The situation, said the NHA, will grow steadily worse until midwinter; the end of the ban on private building will have little effect before...
...ignorance, frivolity and rivalry the world played with the awful atom. Last week the U.S. Congress became the focus of the world's hopes and fears. The U.S. had the bomb; had it the genius to lay down an initial policy which would grow into man's domination of atomic power...
...homily hit home; such thoughts were already in the minds of most of the U.S. people. By this week the average, long-suffering U.S. citizen had begun to grow impatient with labor-management strife and the threat of more. He had good cause: he was caught in the middle and he was getting hurt...
...plump little Caudillo has recently had an extremely cold shoulder from all the major Allies. The Tangier conference door was slammed in his face (TIME, Sept. 3). Plagued by drought and lack of food (Spain needs nearly 2,000,000 tons of imported wheat), the Spanish people grow constantly more dispirited. As a U.P. dispatch from San Sebastian in the Basque country delicately put it: "Demonstrations of affection for Spain's leader have been comparatively limited in number and degree of warmth...
...things, especially man, are a part; 2) that man's great potentiality and purpose to achieve a union with the Whole; 3) that man can achieve such union only by ruthlessly eliminating all human desires and illusions of a separate self, letting the divine element work and grow within him. But self-improvement faddists looking for a 15-minute-a-day course to "happiness" need not apply. Sample Huxley dicta...