Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hsun was an illiterate Shantung peasant who was kicked, starved, beaten and left to freeze as a reward for his ignorance. But Wu had vision and persistence. He determined to beg money for free schools so that other poor children should not grow up as he did. He stood in the cold outside rich men's houses for hours waiting for a dropped coin. Once he knelt begging for three days outside an official's mansion. By 1896, his persistence had earned him enough to build three schools and make him a legend among Chinese schoolchildren...
...Give These Books." The college that was to grow into Yale University was born on a table top in the parlor of a trim farmhouse in Branford, Conn. To that house, one day in 1700-when Harvard was already 64 years old and Princeton still 46 years away-came ten clergymen from all over the Colony, bearing books. One by one, each approached the table with the words: "I give these books for founding a college in Connecticut." By the next year the new "Collegiate School" had a charter, and by the year after that, one student-a wistful sophomore...
...move by night and hide by day. But there was no time for that; the allies' round-the-clock artillery gave them no peace. When the Chinese moved in the open by day, the airplanes hit them. The retreat, which had been orderly at first, began to grow panic-stricken and disordered. Some Chinese truck drivers were in such frantic hurry to get away from the planes that they ran down their own men on the roads...
Blodgett's vegetables grow in narrow, shallow concrete beds which look like giant window boxes and are filled with gravel; three times a day, they are fed with water containing the necessary nutrients (nitrogen, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium). The water, drained back by gravity into an underground reservoir, is used over & over again. There are two farms, one at Chofu, 14 miles from Tokyo, the other near Kyoto. The larger installation at Chofu has 50 acres of hydroponic plots in the open and five acres under a million-dollar greenhouse, has its own ice plant and railroad siding...
Unquestionably, business was hard hit by credit restrictions. But that had been their purpose - to cut buying. Many businessmen, notably auto dealers, could also blame themselves for poor business ; they had let their selling skills grow rusty...