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Word: growed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ilsa Konrads, the children of a Latvian dental mechanic who emigrated to Australia in 1949, may already be the finest freestylers in the world-a fact to make swimming experts boggle at what the pair might do in the next few years, as they grow to adult swimmers' estate. Said Coach Talbot: "We're only in second gear. Just wait till we get into high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Konrads Kids | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

White pointed out that the Library must grow if it is to maintain its position of leadership. "Growth means that the Library must deal with publications in increasingly obscure subjects and languages, that its catalogues must become increasingly complicated, and that even the relatively simple process of circulating books becomes more costly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pusey States Library Got $700,000 Gift | 1/17/1958 | See Source »

...shallow though it is, to be happy. One of the maids has tried to strangle her, and failed; the other tries to poison her, and fails. Both, spilling lines at each other terribly quickly, hurl insults and acid pessimism and gloom--"I am the dung heap on which I grow"--at one another until finally, one of them poisons herself, having commanded the other to offer her the cup. Why such consciously doomed insects didn't commit suicide long ago is never clear...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: The Maids | 1/10/1958 | See Source »

People who have recourse to fingernail-biting in moments of stress are advised to grow them long in preparation for The Bridge on the River Kwai...

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1/9/1958 | See Source »

From then on it is easy. The wily Howe and the sturdy cripple combine to fashion a comeback, and the younger man continues to grow until the climax of his nominating speech for Al Smith in 1924. Bellamy now shows a Roosevelt who retains the sharpness that had given him profound early successes, but has learned to temper it with patience...

Author: By Adam Clymer, | Title: Sunrise at Campobello | 1/8/1958 | See Source »

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