Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believes that the magnetic and geographical poles always stay close together, so the migrations of the magnetic pole mean that the geographical north pole moved in about the same way, followed faithfully by the earth's climatic zones. This would explain the ancient icecaps in lands where palms grow...
Much more checking will have to be done before all cosmologists agree that the universe is in a steady state of continuous creation. But Sciama believes that a good beginning has been made toward proving by observation that all the properties of the universe grow naturally out of new hydrogen created in empty space...
...Place to Grow. Ford of France had good reasons to merge with Simca. Until two years ago French Ford was in trouble. The first postwar model of the Vedette, its bestseller, was brought out in November 1948 with a 67-h.p. engine* that proved underpowered for the weight of the car. It sold well until the sellers' market disappeared. Then French Ford began to lose money. Jack Reith and a team of experts were sent over from Detroit early last year to put the company on its feet. They cut labor and materials costs, produced 20,338 passenger cars...
...University's most esoteric-sounding courses, like Chinese 10, Semitic A, and Slavic 145, just to impress his friends and the people back home. His more realistic brethren usually seek a gut for a fourth course. But to most--those for whom the catalog's offering seems to grow vast as the time remaining in college becomes less and less--the choice of a fourth course is a decision worth a little time and effort...
...years, as he watched his 40-odd sons (the exact number has never been reliably checked) grow to strapping manhood, Saudi Arabia's wily and sentimental old King Ibn Saud cherished a wish-to unite one of them with a daughter of his old friend and champion, Premier Riad El Solh of Lebanon. After El Solh fell before an assassin's gun (in 1951), Ibn Saud sent his boy Prince Sultan, 29, to offer sympathy and a small token of affection ($79,000 in cash) to the Lebanese Premier's widow...