Word: growing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...attend the ceremonies inaugurating the First Italian Republic. His advisers, mostly Roman aristocrats, had polled their servants and country retainers, naively informed him "the common people" wanted their king. When he found out differently, Umberto, surprised and pained, lingered on in Rome in the hope that monarchist demonstrations would grow into a popular demand that he keep the crown. But his Queen Marie-José and their four children had already left for Lisbon...
...path of the Jap invaders. Before the dikes were opened the river had flowed northeastward into the Pohai Gulf. Afterward, it turned southeastward and ran into the Yellow Sea. If the river could be diverted to its former bed, 1,500,000 acres of arable land would grow the grain and cotton that China needs...
...discs, the most economical depth of tillage. Said he: "It's the top four inches you're interested in. . . . It may give you a lot of emotional satisfaction to put the nose of a plow 'way down and rip it up, but it doesn't grow any better crops." Deep plowing is more expensive. He has found that costs increase 20% when tillage depth increases from three to four inches...
...seven when the Civil War was lost and a squadron of Union cavalry rode down a dusty road and into his home town of Lynchburg, Va. A blue-clad rider hauled him up into the saddle and asked: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" He was frail, sickly and small for his age. But he struck out wildly and screamed: "A Confederate major who shoots Yankees." Carter Glass never outgrew his frailty, his sickliness, his ferocity with fists and tongue. And he never forgot -not for a minute-he was a Virginian and a Democrat...
...functioning as Lever Brothers & Unilever Ltd. (with a British-controlled twin in The Netherlands, Lever Brothers & Unilever N.V.), this private empire is a prime bulwark of Britain's reconstruction economy. As it waxes or wanes, so will much of the economic life of the Empire grow stronger or weaker. Through more than 400 subsidiaries operating more than 800 factories in 37 countries (notable exception: Soviet Russia), Unilever dominates the world's soap and margarine businesses. It also sells ice cream, baby food, rubber, cocoa, salad oil, lye, paper, candles, copra, perfume, toothpaste, vitamins, fish, silks, cattle cake, fertilizer...