Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...future, Wright thought, New York will become even more of a village. "You'll see more greenery in 25 years. Grass will grow where least expected, and flowers will bloom in the concrete. Big cities are a hangover from feudal times. Once they were necessary, but they reached and passed their peak, and now you will see them disappearing...
...People's Daily announced that all industrial designing will how be supervised by Soviet technicians, and spoke of a general redistribution of Russian interpreters. Delays of delivery from Russia might indicate that Moscow is parceling out its supplies slowly to make sure that China does not grow too self-sufficient too fast. A likelier explanation is that Russia has some priority problems of its own, and that the Trans-Siberian Railroad is overburdened because of the Korean war and the U.N. blockade of China...
...Jupiter and Saturn, slowly combined into larger and larger organic (carbon-containing) molecules, according to the hypothesis. At last one molecule, a complex protein, showed the ability to absorb other molecules and create replicas of itself out of their material. This "Adam molecule" was the first life; it could grow and reproduce itself...
After thousands of years, says Professor Plass, plants and the slow-moving seas will absorb most of the excess CO ² . But for centuries to come, if man's industrial growth continues, the earth's climate will continue to grow warmer...
...said: "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration"? Who said: "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it"? A centenarian was asked how many grandchildren he had. He replied that if he divided them into groups of two, three, four, five or six, he always had one left over, but that when he divided them into groups of seven there was no remainder...