Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says her mother, "just like she was their own mama"). But in spite of her popularity, Miss Green retains some ideas with a refreshingly old-fashioned flavor: "There is never a time when I don't want to teach. But in like manner, I never grow tired of studying, and always hold to the belief that one cannot be a successful teacher unless she devotes herself to a life of study as well...
...Prescott is the first to weigh the growth of individual amoebas, but he is not tending his microscopic livestock as a mere stunt. He has already discovered something new: that amoebas generally grow for about 20 hours. Then for the next four hours before they divide, their weight does not increase. This scrap of information, gathered so laboriously, is considered important in the study of cellular growth, including the growth of cancer cells in the human body...
...admission requirements are still low. Desperate for employment, about 20,000 West German doctors have emigrated to Africa and the Near East since 1945. Compared to this exodus, the transfers to East Germany represent only a trickle. But unless the surplus is reduced, the trickle is likely to grow...
...farm in Utah. But he talked it over with Elizabeth and decided: "We're going to tackle it." The Bureau of Reclamation supplies the water, but Powers must repay the cost (up to $830 yearly); he must settle on the land, clear it and make it grow...
...birth of Man Singh, a son of the proud Thakore clan in India's northern Agra district, a Brahman priest predicted that he would one day grow up to "become a terror to kings." But as a boy Man Singh was remarkable only for his mild and conscientious disposition. He took no part or interest in the traditional blood feuds between Brahman and Thakore that raged constantly in the Rajput countryside west of the Taj Mahal. He clothed himself in the handspun cloth of humility known as Khadi to show his allegiance to Gandhi, and in hawk-nosed, dignified...