Word: growed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like a distant gun; the filming gives them new visual perspectives-all aimed at making them more aware of an urban environment. "If you don't get imagination as a child, you probably never will," he argues, "because it gets knocked out of you by the time you grow up." The workshop also aims to help teachers discover how children can work together creatively. Adults, claims Geisel, are really "children who have become obsolete," thus need such help in understanding kids...
Even though the Federal Reserve has been squirting money into the U.S. economy all this year at a clip ordinarily fit to make loans grow cheaper, the result instead has been a persistent rise in interest rates. Last week American Telephone & Telegraph Co. borrowed $250 million for 33 years at the highest interest cost it has ever paid for long-term bonds: 6.006% a year. A. T. & T.'s old record, 5.95% for $100 million of 20-year debentures, had stood since...
...Essen foundry in 1811, the House of Krupp had been courted by Bismarck, the Kaisers and Hitler. Kaiser Wilhelm I called it a "national institution." Wilhelm II was Alfried's godfather. And at Alfried's birth, his father Gustav wrote to his directors: "May he grow up in the Krupp works, and through practical work acquire the fundamentals he will require to take over the responsibility-laden duties...
...fact is that statehood has made strong gains in recent years, particularly among Puerto Rico's growing urban middle class. In the island's capital, San Juan, commonwealth edged out statehood by only 3,300 votes, and in Ponce, statehood won a majority. If the longing for statehood continues to grow, another plebiscite is certain to be called eventually. Said Millionaire Industrialist Luis A. Ferre, 63, leader of the statehooders: "Puerto Rico will be a state within eight to ten years...
Convinced they are rearing the Artur Rubinsteins or Peter Duchins of tomorrow-or at least children who will grow up to enjoy making music-U.S. parents are buying a record number of pianos. In 1966, sales hit 243,800, nearly 100,000 more than a decade ago. The company that is hitting the top notes of this financial fortissimo is privately owned Aeolian* Corp., the world's largest manufacturer of pianos, which last year crafted 50,000 units and grossed nearly $30 million...