Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Luther Burbank, had produced a new annual wheat yielding 144 bushels an acre, quadrupling the best previous yield in the Moscow latitude. He had also got the first live seeds from attempts to cross wheat and rye with a desert plant (Elymus giganteus), which may make it possible to grow those grains almost anywhere, thus opening to cultivation 150,000,000 acres of hitherto untillable Soviet land. The biggest news, however, was this: Nikolay Tsitsin appeared on the verge of perfecting a perennial, self-sowing wheat-the dream of farmers all over the world...
...looks like a cow, it's happy when stirring up a row. It's mean and ugly living in a zoo, though home in Assam it's been known to moo. Yesterday up in The Bronx was born what-if-it can keep hale-will soon grow up to be a gayal."-The New York Times...
...discovery was made accidentally, in almost the same way as Dr. Alexander Fleming's finding of penicillin. The Buffalo researchers noticed a green fungus growing on a culture of tubercle bacilli stored in an icebox. The mold seemed to have an affinity for the tubercle germ; it did not grow well in any other medium. It produced a substance (not penicillin, which has been ineffective against tuberculosis) that checked the growth of tubercle bacilli. A preparation from the mold neutralized tuberculin in two hours...
Called mumu by Samoans, filariasis develops from the worm Wuchereria bancrofti, carried by certain species of mosquitoes. Injected into the blood stream, the baby worm (microfilaria) eventually may grow nearly four inches long. It lodges in the lymph glands, where it reproduces itself. First visible symptoms are painful swellings of an arm, leg or the scrotum. Doctors have been less alarmed than troops by the disease, because even with repeated infections, less than 10% of the cases develop elephantiasis, and symptoms usually disappear after return to a temperate climate. But the disease's monstrous effects on native sufferers...
...vast conspiracy in the East to keep the West Coast an undernourished industrial stepchild. The onset of World War II gave the West basic industries on a scale that it never had before, notably steel and aluminum. Then Westerners began to dream that the West was finally going to grow up industrially. But as the end of the war draws near with no definite plans announced to utilize fully those industries, many a Westerner has grown bitter and disillusioned. Last week Druge summed up that disillusionment and, in so doing, spoke for most Westerners...