Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There, by dispensing favors, Miró could grow wealthy. Guizado accepted, said Miro; the Vice President, a wealthy contractor, had recently suffered business reverses and needed to rebuild his own bankroll...
Above one of the most traversed pathways into the Yard, there is engraved on the gate archway "Enter to Grow in Wisdom." After aweing busloads of professional sightseers with this sentiment for decades, the University has now turned its back on growth, or at least, nocturnal growth. The gate and its fellows, as you know if you intend to pass the coming mid-term examinations, are locked promptly at 8 p.m. And so, with misgivings we continue what bids to become an editorial crusade: we request once more that the gates be unlocked until midnight...
...when dwindling U.S. lumber reserves, new wood-using industries, and the increased needs of World War II gave the idea a boost. For a starter, Weyerhaeuser planted the first 120,000 acres of logged-over ground near Montesano, Wash, with Douglas fir seedlings, and sat back to watch them grow to logging size in 80 to 100 years...
...public about free enterprise by starting stock-purchase plans under which employees could use part of their wages to buy shares in the companies for which they worked. And the lessons took. Said Chief Petty Officer Edward J. Michaels, a new investor in Dallas: "I watched American business growing and growing, and I got a feeling I wanted to grow with it." One of the phenomena of 1954 was the huge growth of invest ment clubs, whose members put in $10 or $20 a month for group investment. In Denver a group of 27 men and women -ranging from housewives...
Once upon an unsophisticated time, a playwright could draw laughs from an audience by just a nod towards Sex. But then pristine T.V. came along. The movies, sensing competition, announced that they had grown up and had learned that children do not grow on trees. Everyone hailed this as a sign of maturity, except of course the playwrights, who felt that they might be losing some of their audience if Screen sex became as naughty as Stage sex. So they decided to make their scripts really disgusting. Boston has already seen one of these New Look comedies this season--Black...