Word: growed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picturesque [meaning rowdy bullfights in little fiesta towns] is for when you are young, or if you are a little drunk so that it will all seem real, or if you never grow up, or if you have a girl with you who has never seen it, or for once in a season, or for those who like it. But if you really want to learn about bullfighting, or if you ever get to feel strongly about it, sooner or later you will have to go to Madrid...
...Cordobés and Palomo Linares had defied Los Siete Grandes, the seven biggest ring owner-agents, who henceforth intend to control the sport by setting fees and scheduling matadors. For that, the pair had been banished, cast out to fight before the drunks and girls and the never-grow-ups in picturesque third-class towns...
...emphasis in Harvard finances on saving reflects the belief that the billion dollars must grow as a protection against future higher expenses. Everyone is forced to save...
...first years during which fees were subsidized, the growth rate of the general investments might be cut back to 6.5 per cent, but this rate would gradually grow back toward the original 8.4 per cent. (The full version of the financial research is available...
...Stomp in the late fifties, they probably never anticipated the rapidity with which it was to vanish from the popular scene. Likewise, those who started the freshman intramural program at Harvard were probably of the opinion that it would last forever and ever. But if the participation continues to grow at its present negative rate, soon there will be no organized program of intramurals for first-year students...