Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...migrating appreciably at present. He suspects that it may have been caught in a "trap." The axis tends to shift, he thinks, toward the region where glacial ice is melting fastest, moving one of the poles toward that same region. The climate there gets colder. The glaciers grow thicker. Then the axis and the pole move slowly back again...
...professorial success stories are not without cost. Campus TV celebrities run into a good deal of envious carping criticism from their colleagues. And there is the equal danger that the celebrities will grow too big for their professorial britches. Dr. Baxter, 59, recognizes that he has to be periodically cut down to size by his wife and daughter, who now greet him with "Here comes that pudgy, tweedy, twinkling, pink, bald bunch of enthusiasm." One of his wife's comments may be even more pertinent: "Thank God this didn't happen to you 30 years...
...slated, under differing kinds of compulsion, to move from their present positions of power, Britain's two most dramatic politicians were proving astonishingly stubborn and durable. Sir Winston Churchill, though his resignation as Prime Minister seemed to grow more likely as the reported date for it (April 5) approached, devoted the week to a teasing demonstration that at 80 he is still the most dashing performer on the political stage. Aneurin Bevan, Labor's unruly Welshman, cockily sat by while the leaders who were going to expel him split apart and handed him a reprieve...
...Harvard began to grow in the eighteenth century, the meeting house became too small for Commencement exercises, and in 1756, the President sacrificed his orchard to provide space for a larger church. The new structure was a square frame building with fifty-six pews and a gallery in front for students. Since there was little room in the gallery, seats were hinged so that they could be raised for standing prayers. Students listened reverently to the pastor's prayers, but the "amens" were usually followed by a thundering crash as freshmen and sophomores competed in the art of seat-slamming...
...original nucleus had begun to grow and in some ways to change. First, the early productions had drawn increasing support from Bostonians who were willing to support what publicity director Catherine Huntington calls "pure theater with no commercialism, which is attractive to the artist element." The mailing list has come to include 1,200 possible season members ($10) or patrons ($35). So the Theatre has moved onto very solid financial ground...