Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visit to Iowa to see what huge crop yields a relatively small number of U.S. farmers could obtain. In farm productivity, said Khrushchev, "our country is still seriously lagging behind the U.S." He cited some revealing figures of the number of man-hours required in the two countries to grow 220 lbs. of produce...
...still being mysteriously created in the form of hydrogen gas. Matter appears at the rate of a few atoms per year in each cubic mile of space. As the galaxies fly apart, new galaxies form out of fresh hydrogen in the widening gaps between them. These galaxies in turn grow old, fly apart and leave the space between them free for the formation of another generation...
...than the earth, the proponents of the steady state universe will be proved right. For steady state theory holds that the universe's matter was no more concentrated then than it is now. Its stars and galaxies change and develop, but the universe as a whole does not grow old. It had no beginning and will have no end, either in time or space...
East-West Love. In the philosophical concept of Yang and Yin, the two elements grow and shrink each at the other's expense, but never wholly obliterate each ather, so that the end result is a kind of universal harmony. This is more or less what happens backstage at Flower Drum Song, according to testimony not only from pressagents-those untrustworthy upbeat philosophers-but according to anybody else connected with the show. And practically everybody gives the credit to the Oriental qualities of patience and politeness. Says Production Supervisor Jerry Whyte, a tough veteran of R. & H. shows since...
...STARS GROW PALE, by Karl Bjarnhof. Written by a Danish author and musician, who is himself blind, Bjarnhof's fictional memoir of a boy gradually losing his sight is steadily touching, not once sentimental. In it, blindness leads to selfdiscovery, and when music fills the boy's dark world, it is as if he had won a major victory...