Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goes to the office on a regular daily schedule, he rarely does any of the cartoons required of him every ten days until deadline day. His sharp eye for stuffiness spares no one-least of all himself. Says Cartoonist Lichty of his success: "From little acorns mighty oafs grow...
Honored in the Breach. In Pineville, La., after listening to Mrs. Nona Vance's charge that Handyman Elmer A. Gallipau had failed to paint her house and Gallipau's countercharge that the hair-restorer treatments she gave him in payment had failed to grow hair. Judge Jack Holt called it a draw, assessed both equal shares of the court costs...
...tension begins to grow. Graves can change his mind up to one second before the explosion deadline, but he has already given the word that sends between 30 and 160 aircraft up for blast observation and cloud sampling. The word has been flashed to the Strategic Air Command so that planes in Seattle, Florida and overseas can take off on related atomic surveillance missions. His word has warned the Civil Aeronautics Administration to keep planes out of certain areas across the continent...
...difficulty is accentuated by the nature of libraries. A University can graduate students, retire professors, and tear down outdated buildings. The library on the other hand must find more and more elaborate means for preserving books as they grow older and older...
...Salk and his colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh have earned the right to lead the parade, which started to move when the Harvard trio of Enders, Weller, and Robbins found a non-nervous tissue in which the viruses could grow. But the other marchers at universities, foundations, hospitals and laboratories throughout the world have also merited a place in the ranks. They, along with the people who donated "dimes and dollars," have accomplished a miracle with ten million dollars--the price of ten jet planes...