Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-known fact that all children are born with different capacities for doing school work, and that as they grow older, the difference between the mental age of a bright child and that of a dull child becomes increasingly greater. In other words, the range of mental ages that you find in a typical American high school is far greater than is found on the grade school level. To take extreme measures like those which England has adopted to reduce the secondary-school enrollment would, of course, not be applicable here, because public opinion is too solidly entrenched...
...Charlton was the eighth and biggest of Mrs. Van Charlton's 17 babies-he weighed 15 lbs. 8 oz. at birth-and he was a good boy from the time he could toddle. Unlike many other U.S. parents, the Charltons never thought for a moment that he would grow up to be President. The Charltons are Negroes...
...acclamation the "Iron International." Their purpose was to fight a new menace from the U.S. The real enemy of peace, cried Iron Internationalist Giovanni Roveda, delegate from Trieste, is the American "productivity campaign" in Western Europe. According to the Reds, U.S. help to French, Italians and Britons to grow more food, make more steel, mine more coal and grow more prosperous is a form of "super-exploitation," which forces the workers to pay the costs of war. Iron International proposed to rescue Europeans from the web of "Wall Street-propagated productivity" by encouraging them to feign sickness, refuse overtime, work...
Despite the possibilities of an earthquake, Professor Let does not think students should grow panicky. "We can't say whether the quake will come tomorrow or a thousand years from now. The actual present hazard," he says," is less than crossing Harvard Square at noon...
When the book was published in England as The False Start, the critics dusted off some of their most generous phrases. The New Statesman and Nation called it a "limpid and exquisite love story"; The Recorder suggested that young Rossi might grow up to become "another Flaubert." Young Jean's little novel has now been published in the U.S. under the title Awakening, and, while it seems to have been a bit overrated, it is at least a remarkable book for a teen-age author...