Word: growed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Glass Jars. Peanut farming has become a highly mechanized business. Beginning in late April, mechanical planters insert seed peanuts into the soil. Though many city dwellers may think peanuts grow inside glass jars, they actually burgeon underground, like potatoes. Four or five months after planting, a machine called a "digger-shaker-inverter" trundles over the field cutting under the plant, lifting it from the soil, shaking off clinging dirt and placing it back on the ground to allow the peanut pods to dry partially. Finally, a peanut combine picks up the plants and separates the mature pods...
...professor of Atmospheric Science, Steven C. Wofsy, Lecturer in Atmospheric Science, and Yuk Ling Yung, research fellow in Atmospheric Science, recently, also says "that the ozone level may drop by about 20 per cent over the next hundred years if world population and the demand for food continue to grow at present rates...
...Taking a different approach, Entomologist William Bowers, of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, has isolated two substances from ageratum, a flowering plant, that interfere with an insect's production of juvenile hormones. When these antihormones are applied to immature cotton stainers and Mexican bean beetles, the insects grow into sterile adults. Colorado potato beetles treated with the chemical enter a hibernation from which they never emerge...
...that has become the eighth age of modern man, in which the newly single 40-year-old gawks around like a teenager, wondering miserably how to get girls. He married again, with great love and luck, lived on a boat for five years, beat down alcoholism, watched his children grow, and went on honorably writing books that are not, now, much read. His years have been a skidway, but he has man aged to observe the slide well. John Skow
...methods encouraged labor historians to spin a cocoon around American workers, isolating them from their own particular subcultures and from the larger national culture. An increasingly narrow "economic" analysis caused the study of American working-class history to grow more constricted and become more detached from larger developments in American social and cultural history...