Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drumbeat Repetition. The old National Catechism phrased its lessons in adult language, relied on drumbeat repetition to teach difficult concepts that children later might grow to understand: "Was the Blessed Virgin preserved from original sin? Yes, the Blessed Virgin was preserved from original sin. This is why we say that she was conceived without sin." The new catechism's verse presentation is designed for emotional appeal...
...frontier arteries -the Arkansas River and the Great Southwest Trail-Little Rock attracted settlers and travelers such as Davy Crockett, who said in 1834: "If I could rest anywhere it would be in Arkansaw where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grow nowhere else on the face of the universal earth but just around the backbone of North America...
...read her boys a Bible chapter every night until they went off to college. She wanted Egbert to be a preacher; he now regards religion as "more ethics than faith." She recalls him as a lad with a strong sense of duty and determination, who could not wait to grow up to his brothers' level. Typically, when a photographer was once posing the two brothers in their school clothes, little Egbert, not yet old enough for school, grabbed a book and crashed the picture with a mature scowl (see cut). He began earning money at 15. At 16, when...
Berliners had other names for it. Watching the structure grow, they jokingly dubbed it "the Dulleseum," and compared it to a "hooded owl peeking over a fence" or "a pregnant butterfly." But once completed, the daring structure, with its gleaming white concrete roof, soft rose and blue walls, got rave reviews. Der Tag called it "a symphony of colors and forms"; the Socialist Telegraf headlined the news, WONDER BUILDING AT THE SPREE; BERLIN'S NEW SYMBOL...
...success of a cable test in Bartlesville, Okla. (TIME, Sept. 16). Skiatron has 60 legmen mapping every house in Los Angeles for wiring, and Telemeter expects to start wire TV in Los Angeles "in the very near future." If the wired systems pack in the viewers, pay TV may grow up in a hurry...