Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Daily News reporter, assigned to investigate the famine, wrote: "The shortage will grow progressively worse until October 1947, when there won't be any [cigarets] at all." This was not mere cheerful exaggeration, for the U.S. was rapidly depleting its stocks of cured tobacco...
...snaps off the lights over his Old Masters when he leaves the room. But he produces for adventure as well as profit. "In six months the Diamond Horseshoe makes all the money I'm allowed to earn in a year, so I will either vegetate and let ivy grow on my legs, or try to do something worth-while." Hollywood does not interest him: "It's fine for 15 days; the 16th day I start throwing empty gin bottles out of the window...
...until you have watched the kudzu grow...
Ollie Reeves, poet laureate of the Atlanta Constitution, recently broadcast this ode to a plant whose exploits are becoming the talk of the South. Kudzu (rhymes with good zoo) is a vine which, say Arkansans, grows so fast that men drop kudzu roots into the ground and run. It has been known to grow as much as twelve inches in a single day, as much as 100 feet in a season...
...cows, however familiar they may be with the habits of bees and flowers, will never see a bull. So predicted Dr. J. W. Bartlett of New Jersey's College of Agriculture, announcing that, by artificial insemination with sperm of outstanding bulls, his group has produced calves which grow up to be cows giving twice as much milk as ordinary animals...