Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...support he had. Not a single Harvard College student has joined the movement in the last year, though many come to hear him who aren't official followers. Observers think Feeney's decline is due to the completely negative quality of his talks. His audiences have never ceased to grow, but the ranks of heckiers are also enlarging. This has caused frequent disturbances, and now police are present almost every Sunday...
...pigs thrive mightily under this forced draught. None are trampled or eaten; no luckless runts are left teatless. Pfizer says that out of 3,000 pigs scientifically nursed on six farms, only 5% died. The normal mortality under the sow's regimen is 21% to 33%. The pigs grow faster, too. They reach 28 Ibs. in six weeks instead of the normal eight weeks, and they attain marketable size 40 days earlier...
...smoky Madison Square Garden. Her career slipped from bad to worse. RCA Victor said nothing about renewing her recording contract; the radio demand for her voice began to fade. The wise guys of the music business shook their heads. Patrice, was just one more prodigy who couldn't grow...
Ever since, Jo Davidson has let his beard grow. Today it is the finest growth of anti-freeze known to U.S. art since Walt Whitman's-in fact, New York Park Commissioner Robert Moses, unveiling Davidson's statue of Whitman in Bear Mountain Park, declared himself "not quite sure whether this is a statue of Walt Whitman by Jo Davidson or a statue of Jo Davidson by Walt Whitman...
Competition soon began building up all over Cambridge. Harvard Square became a business and social center. The YMCA grow too large for the house and moved to its own quarters. Churches sprang up around the University and formed students groups of their own. By the early '20's, all the religious societies that had operated from PBH were dropped or absorbed by churches. According to a Yale divinity student in 1944 who did an extensive paper on Brooks House, religious interest here was "suffering from arterio-sclerosis...