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Word: growed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would be fatal. Most notorious were Filomeno Velazco, chief of police, and General Juan Pistarini, Minister of Public Works. Tenaciously, they and their fellows clung to power, preventing the Government's concessions from having much effect. Said Pistarini (according to Vanguardia): "We shall relinquish the Government when frogs grow hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Strategic Concession | 6/25/1945 | See Source »

...bite fever, the original wound heals temporarily, later opens again, larger and more angry-looking, a rash develops, temperature rises to 103° or 104° F., falls to normal in a couple of days, then rises again in cycles which may recur for months. The patient may grow thin, have muscle pains, delirium, arthritis. Treatment is similar to that for syphilis and saves nearly every case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Why Rats Bite Babies | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

Since 1925 the Gluecks have compiled detailed case histories of 2,000. Punishment, they have found, does not reform; 88% of juvenile delinquents remain delinquent. But the offenses tend to become less serious as the criminals grow older. Those who show least improvement are those who fail to mature with the years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Crime & Punishment | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

Cried the visitor: "I've got Herefords in Texas but they don't grow big enough -get about the size of yearlings. I want to look at a full grown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Empire for Sale | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...will it be possible for the new Czechoslovak Army not only to make full use of the great fighting experience of the Red Army but also to be formed in the shortest period, without loss of precious time. Our Army, which is destined for fighting, will be formed and grow in battle, and the bureaucratic conception of an army living in barracks while millions of our brothers-in-arms, men of the Red Army and of our other allies, are still fighting will be abandoned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Fusion | 5/28/1945 | See Source »

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