Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because he likes "to work with men and to watch organizations grow," Lt. Col. A.L. Tuttle, USA, Retired, quit Harvard recently to accept an appointment at Father Flanagan's Boys' Town, at Omaha, Nebraska, where he will head a military training unit. Registered as a first-term Freshman, Lt. Col. Tuttle was at 60 the oldest undergraduate at Harvard...
...spite of optimism, philanthropy, and youth conferences, this is one hell of a world for kids to be trying to grow...
...engineers knew what they wanted. They were seeking the basic, minimum parts of an integrated industrial system. Put together, the individual parts would give China a fundamental industrial plant from which greater variety and specialization could grow...
...beldams of yesteryear who gave onions and garlic to stave off typhus, let pennies grow green in the cellar for use on cuts, and put moldy bread on wounds had the right idea, though their practice was often fatal. For, some of their remedies contained antibiotics,* the natural bacteria-fighting substances produced by living organisms...
...still equally enthusiastic. Said O. G. Lompe, a Douglas jig builder and C.I.O. shop steward, "Sure, we like the class. They give us the straight facts. ..." Said Supervisor Robert Kennedy, in charge of building C-47s: "Yes sir, I learned a helluva lot." Said President Donald Douglas: "Most grievances grow from misunderstanding. When we learn how to analyze and understand the other fellow and his problems, most of our troubles and grievances will disappear...