Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frozen-food company, the brothers have cut hours from kitchen chores with nine lines of frozen pies, appetizers, meat and poultry dishes, and complete "TV Dinners," each one ready to heat and eat within minutes. The result: a booming $100-million yearly business that is really just starting to grow...
...best, and in The Old Man and the Sea he is better than he ever was, more mature and less mannered. Unlike most American writers, who seemed inexplicably to wither after their triumphs (e.g., Sinclair Lewis, Joseph Her-esheimer, Thomas Wolfe), Ernest Hemingway has continued to grow...
...proposal (TIME, Dec. 6), but went much further. It would "seed" have-not nations with reactors. By thus enabling them to create new industries, the U.S. would convert what is now "a giveaway plan [of foreign aid] to what would be a repayment plan." Said he: "Atomic reactors . . . would . . . grow the real wealth out of which their costs could be paid back." If India and Pakistan, for example, put up counterpart funds to match the $170 million of U.S. aid allocated to them in the past three years, "there might be built six . . . atomic-power plants...
Proviously, all attempts at growing the virus has centered around the impractical use of infected monkey brain as culture material. But, as there seemed to be strong evidence that polio grew in the body as well as the brain, the two men decided to try to grow the virus on ordinary human skin cells. This reasoning seemed to be a logical step, especially since the chicken-pox had been grown with human tissue...
...sure way of telling if the virus would grow," Enders pointed out later, "because we found that when it did multiply it killed the living cells of the skin. It is very easy to tell under a microscope whether or not cells are dead...