Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Higher Freedom. "The school is not the Church nor is it the home. It is a sort of city-an area both of protection and of prudent exposure . . . It is a city of freedom in which intelligence may be released freely to grow. And it is a city of order in which the growing intelligence freely gives itself to the guidance of what is lovelier than itself to be led to the higher freedom with which the Word of God makes men free...
...surpluses by subsidized sales of grain and cotton abroad, it is so rigged that, as overseas sales are successful, price supports rise automatically - hence bring on more surpluses. Designed to ensure farm stabilization, it has instead warped the farm economy, e.g., Northwest farmers, restricted on wheat acreage, grow barley instead, and are now starting a cattle-feeding program to use the barley. "The hell of it is," said one of them, "all it would take is an administrative ruling right now to rip up the whole program...
...Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney has asked six manufacturers* to churn out vaccine as fast as possible, and in response they are putting their virus laboratories on two or three shifts, seven days a week. But there is only so much vaccine available for seeding; it will grow only at its naturally appointed speed (in fertilized eggs). So, even with their crash program, the manufacturers can promise only 8,000,000 shots of vaccine by mid-September. After that, cooler weather is expected to send the flu rate soaring...
...homemade shoes to bedsprings. Best candidates: a bicycle framemaker with only $700 in cash but potential orders totaling $10,000; a group of young leather workers ready to turn out soccer balls by the hundreds as soon as they can get the cash; a young hog farmer with a growing surplus big enough to start a cannery. "I haven't had as much fun in years," said Graham. Then he deposited $25,000 of his own money in the Punjab Bank as the start of a lending fund which he hopes will grow and grow...
...have made it a habit to pack up canvas and paints, take off for a working summer vacation. In the current paint-for-paint's-sake decade, artists continue to take the bus, borrow a car or hitchhike to the summer Bohemias, where they crowd the bars and grow summer beards...