Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Those with the strength to rise for breakfast and the courage to notice the faces across the table will readily admit that morale is presently at its lowest level. As the weeks seem to grow longer, the bells louder, and the lectures more tedious, undergraduates can look back to the day when much of the miserable mood set in--the Wednesday when classes met for the new semester. If there were a pause of at least three days between exam period and the second semester, providing an opportunity to recover from exams and to prepare for the next cycle, spirits...
...come in, and he was off his chair chasing it like any other boy. When he slipped on the floor at Schönbrunn and was helped to his feet by a seven-year-old princess named Marie Antoinette, he thanked her thus: "You are good, and when I grow up I will marry...
...approach to selling, renovated hundreds of stores and laid plans to add 100 new catalogue-order offices, stepped up advertising, put new emphasis on installment selling. As a result, gross sales for 1955's final eleven months were up 10.1% to almost $1 billion, and are expected to grow even faster in 1956. Furthermore, the annual dividend was boosted from $3.50 to $4, plus a year-end extra...
...broke off from the Advocate to form a new publication, causing the parent magazine to dub itself "Mother Advocate." This earliest offspring, like all the succeeding ones, was spawned for one basic reason, the Advocate's interests had become oriented exclusively in one direction, causing a few editors to grow disgruntled. The magazine's rabid interest in reform drove some of its more flippant members to form the Lampoon in 1871, leaving the Advocate more of a newspaper than anything else. In 1873, however, the CRIMSON appeared as a rival bi-weekly newspaper, and the Advocate board suddenly became more...
...specific kinds of germs, physicians are still handicapped in starting treatment because in many cases they do not know what kind of germ they are fighting. Hence, they do not know which drug to use. If they take a specimen from a patient, e.g., sputum, spinal fluid, they can grow the bacteria from it and eventually identify them, but this takes about a week. In Atlanta, Bacteriologist Max D. Moody of the U.S. Public Health Service described a method for achieving this result within an hour...