Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republican victory might have even more dramatic effects on the saga of Tom Dewey. He will campaign for the G.O.P. candidate. Franklin Roosevelt will throw his prestige and political power behind the Democrat. If Tom Dewey can win that fight, his name will grow great among the delegates to the Republican national convention, sitting to name a candidate who has even a fighting chance to head off the Fourth Term...
What would peace gain Russia? First & last, peace-peace to heal her wounds and grow strong again, peace while other powers weaken themselves in war, peace with the boundaries and spheres of influence Russia wants...
...Silkworms grow fatter on mulberry leaves picked at dusk. Cattle do better if pastured in late afternoon rather than in the morning...
When Lord Halifax was Viceroy of India, he officially recognized Mohandas Gandhi as a statesman and chief Indian spokesman, allowed Indian National Congress influence to grow. Next came Lord Willingdon, who attempted to sup press the Congress, succeeded only in driving it underground. Linlithgow stood between Halifax and Willingdon, showing neither Halifax's sympathy nor Willingdon's iron hand. During his "irregime," anti-British sentiment grew in India; economic conditions did not improve; Gandhi, Nehru and some 35,000 members of the Congress party were jailed...
...tell him why they plow, claims that he never got an answer that made scientific sense. Most farmers plow, he concludes, mainly because they like to. Why is it, Faulkner asks, that when crops in a plowed field become parched and yellow, the weeds in unplowed adjoining fencerows still grow lush and green? Why do plants in meadows and forests grow prodigiously without cultivation? Because, answers Faulkner, they are fed TIME, July 26, 1943 and protected by decaying plants on the surface of the soil. Plowing buries this organic material beyond the reach of most roots. Besides depriving...