Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your superb tribute to Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick in TIME [May 25] may I, for the record, add one of Dr. Fosdick's choicest epigrams, from a sermon which he preached in the Riverside Church nearly 25 years ago? . . . Said Dr. Fosdick, "It is magnificent to grow old-if one keeps young!" And now, a quarter of a century later, on his 75th birthday, Dr. Fosdick has become the finest personification of his own meaningful epigram. WILLIAM B. LIPPHARD Executive Secretary Associated Church Press New York City
...that when the gasoline is burned in the presence of water, it turns some of the water into new gasoline. If the amount produced is less than the original stock, the world would soon run out of gasoline. But if the amount is greater the gasoline stock could grow bigger and bigger until all the world's water had been turned into fuel...
...miracle (a fuel that breeds like rabbits) is to make a reactor that is extremely economical in neutrons. If more than one neutron from fissioning U-235 is available for turning U-238 into plutonium, the amount of fuel in the charge, instead of being consumed like coal, will grow continually...
...also had an idea that she had been an unwanted child, and described two burning sensations when she believed that her mother had been trying to cause an abortion. Despite her conscious ignorance of biology, she told in detail of having been "just a tiny spot," then beginning to grow bigger. From the patient's mother, Dr. Kelsey learned that she had indeed been unwanted, and had been almost strangled at birth by the umbilical cord. "Not surprisingly, [the mother denied] any attempt at procuring a miscarriage...
...Bulgaria wanted vegetable oils; the U.S. has just imposed a stiff import quota on tung oil after spending thousands to teach the Paraguayans how to grow it for the U.S. market...