Word: grows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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August 1929-TIME'S morgue began to grow from a file labeled by Foreign News Researcher Cecilia Schwind "material which ought to be kept." TIME'S morgue is now a vast fact silo with a staff of 57 people...
Part of TIME'S $1.48 goes into a more or less clumsy effort to tell the reader what kind of guy Piers is, or why he tries to grow turnips or what are the chances that he'll set fire to the haystack and burn up his house, wife and children; in short, to tell, across the 20th Century community's backyards of specialization, complexity and confusion, what the news is, and to tell it in such a way that its hearer will take it in and be able...
...matter of fact, LeCorbeiller's eyes grow a little misty when he reflects, "America is the country for General Education par excellence. I sec a tremendous opportunity for adult education here...
Next, Kuiper examined the greenish areas. Their spectra indicated that they could not be vegetation like trees or grass. But they might be lowly lichens like those that grow on the dry rocks near McDonald Observatory. Lichens need no water in liquid form. Martian lichenlike plants might get enough water out of vapor from the icecaps, which evaporate without melting...
...must be given a chance to grow under stable and prosperous conditions," said Bonnet. "Only when the hungry of the world are fed and the ragged are dressed can be possibilities of a world of nations be achieved...