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Word: overgrew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

Peace especially visited the seven miles of tunnels, 140 miles of costly, well-constructed roadbed through the nine dark ridges of the Alleghenies. Grass overgrew "South Penn" embankments, saplings pushed their way through its rock ballast and water seeped higher and higher over the rubble of the tunnels. For half a century nothing stirred in those dark caverns except some albino, sightless trout which according to Pennsylvania Highway Planning Division's Director Kaulfuss "mysteriously developed in these unnatural, impounded waters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Dream Drained | 10/4/1937 | See Source »

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