Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week. In Washington, Federal Judge Edward A. Tamm slapped a $75,000 fine on the brotherhood after it pleaded guilty to contempt of court for pulling its paralyzing "sick" strike (TIME, Feb. 19) in defiance of a federal injunction. Said Judge Tamm: "If unions are to continue to grow and prosper they must accept their responsibilities as well as their rights...
Seventh--Every boy has a right to grow up, and the fathers and husbands she so admires were also at one time callow, simpering youths...
Last week Dr. Charles N. Pease of Chicago's Children's Memorial Hospital told a meeting of orthopedic surgeons about an operation he has been using. Instead of retarding growth in a sound leg, he tries to make the diseased one grow faster. In his preliminary report, Dr. Pease did not advance his method as either new or a sure thing, but he has used it successfully on 18 children...
...foreign object lodged in a bone (or any part of the body) causes irritation which results in increased circulation in the region. In a minor operation, Pease bores a hole in the bone of a stunted leg about one-half inch from the epiphyseal plate (the layer of growing cells near the end of a bone) and inserts a small screw. A screw of almost any material will cause enough irritation to promote circulation, but Dr. Pease prefers ivory because it is eventually absorbed by the body. Under the stimulus of increased circulation, bones of younger children begin to grow...
...naping"' begins as a summertime lark, soon burgeons into a well-organized, well-paying racket whose wealthy victims are invariably demoralized by the sight of the gang's own dog picking up the ransom at the payoff rendezvous. When the spoils grow too large for the nine youngsters to spend safely on themselves, they transform Montmartre with such anonymous good deeds as giving an elderly couple the funds for a marriage license to celebrate 40 years of unwedded bliss...