Word: growed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interstellar mobility. But some optimistic scientists see hope in "time dilation." If a spaceship cruising toward a foreign star approaches the speed of light, its time, by relativity, will slow down. Its clocks will run slow by earth time, and the chemical processes that make its crew grow old will run slowly too. So when the ship reaches its destination thousands of light years away from the earth, the men on board will be almost as young as when they left home. If they could return to the earth, where time has been elapsing at its customary rate, they would...
...Western faces the possible consequences of calling him to account, Nasser gave nine Soviet correspondents a two-hour interview in which he thanked the Russians for sending him military aid "without conditions" and for offering "volunteers" to fight the Suez invaders. Said Nasser: "I wish for this friendship to grow and develop in strength." A Nasser aide announced that the Anglo-French attack on Suez had freed Egypt from its commitment to negotiate for nonpolitical operation of the canal in accordance with the U.N.'s "six principles." Cairo later explained that it would still negotiate on the matter with...
...spoke last week before a Monterey meeting of the American Physical Society. Dr. Alvarez made an announcement that excited scientists and engineers all over the world. He offered nothing practical, only some odd, squiggly lines and a mass of abstruse interpretation. But the lines and theories may eventually grow into a new and better kind of nuclear energy...
...taught herself the Lord's Prayer from a book, and she repeated it each night as though actually thinking through the words. Like all children, says her mother, Gabrielle was "a natural believer with an enormous faith in God . . . I guess it's only as we grow older and become paved with pride and knowledge that we lose our understanding and begin to doubt and forget the things that once we never questioned...
...most significant biological and chemical advances in recent years, Wald stated, "We are beginning to understand that we live in a universe which is some five to ten billion years old. We realize that the universe has its own cosmic evolution. Stars and galaxies are born, grow, become old and die. Our life has a place as part of the order of nature. Life is a part of the physics of our universe...