Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...climate and fertile soil combine to produce vast quantities of rice, tea, sugar and fruit, including the round, yellow-fleshed watermelons which Formosans like to eat chilled in vinegar. In their paddy fields many Formosans grow two crops of rice each year, follow up with a third crop of turnips or cabbages...
...Langmuir and Schaefer found by careful experiment that the motes form at -39° C. (38° F.). This explained some types of rain. Certain clouds rise high enough to be cooled to that temperature. Ice motes form, find their way into warmer parts of the cloud, where they grow into snowflakes and fall as snow or rain. "Why not help things along with some dry ice?" asked Langmuir & Schaefer...
...lasted French's lifetime, and beyond. His smooth blend of realism with classical overtones has made his work grow steadily in popularity if not in critical reputation. During World War II, the Minute Man adorned millions of U.S. stamps and war bond posters. Later French sculptures, like the John Harvard who sits pondering his philanthropy in Harvard Yard and the Lincoln of Washington's Lincoln Memorial, had long since become as familiar to Americans' as Longfellow's Hiawatha...
...Mike's organization was flourishing; Elmer's was in bad shape from age and disuse. In alarm, crusty old Elmer began stumping the state. He pointed to the federal money he had gotten the state because of his seniority, plaintively warned that "a baby could grow up before a younger man could do the state any good." With a campaign kitty raised by oil and utility companies, he showered the state with pamphlets ("What Elmer Thomas Has Done for Soy Beans") and ads ("Can We Keep Tinker Field if We Lose Senator Elmer Thomas...
Every year the life of the U.S. fish gets more hazardous, and-presumably-U.S. thoughts grow cleaner. In 1949, an estimated 25 million citizens tempted him with hook-studded live frogs, gaily feathered flies, and plump, harmless-looking nightcrawlers. The number of U.S. anglers, says Editor Bruce R. Tuttle in his introduction to The Standard Book of Fishing, is even larger...