Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proceeds of a fund-raising campaign now under way will be turned over to Mrs. MacDowell on her 95th birthday next November. The hope, he said, is to raise "a thousand dollars for each year of Mrs. MacDowell's life and a few extra thousand for her to grow...
...views in the current Scientific American, Pease says: "With [such] machines in control, we can conceive of factories which will process, assemble and finish any article of manufacture. It is unlikely that the automatic factory will appear suddenly. Like the machine tool itself, it will just grow by steps, until eventually it is here...
...year-old daughter, is separated from his wife - Hewitt lives the life, of a dull, 14-year-old boy. Unable to remember events of the present for more than a fleeting moment, he watches boxing on TV ("That's what I want to do when I grow up"), reads, plays the harmonica and guitar, helps a little with the household chores. Doctors offer little hope for further improvement. But, says his confident mother, Mrs. Mabel K. Werrett: "Love can do a lot, you know...
Wharton found that young koupreys are red, later turn grey. The males later turn jet black. The horns of the cows grow in graceful lyre shape; the bulls' horns spread wider, and they wear them to frazzles by stabbing them fiercely into the ground...
...Legend relates that two 16th century burghers of Worms were once arguing about the permanence of the new Protestant religion. One contended that Protestantism would soon die. The other, enraged, thrust his walking stick into the ground, shouting, "As certainly as this stick shall take root and grow into a tree, so also will Luther's faith remain." The stick, the story goes, grew into the 120-ft. Luther...