Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Moscow to Melbourne the action and drama of [soccer] thrills crowds who consider American football slightly less exciting than watching grass grow" [TIME, June...
...Since then, Oscar F. Hild, the union's president, has run the show. One of his shrewdest ideas: the Young Friends of Summer Opera, whose teen-age members serve as money raisers and ushers, and so spend free nights at the opera. Hild expects the Young Friends to grow up into old friends -and cash customers-of the opera...
Last year the Harvardmen produced two cocoons whose silk was "hot" enough to impress their images on a photographic film. This year they hope to grow a kilo (2.2 lbs.) of the stuff for themselves and colleagues to study. The hot silk, even in this quantity, will not be a menace. Even if it should escape from the laboratory and get itself woven into underwear, it is not strong enough to damage the most sensitive skin...
...neighbors soon stopped worrying about young Albert Schweitzer, who began to grow up as straight and strong as an Alsatian pine. But his mother still had cause to weep-over his report cards. The first-rate education to which he was entitled as a parson's son, and the grandson of a minister and a schoolmaster, seemed at first to be a dubious investment. At home, Albert's brothers & sisters called him "the dreamer." At school, reading and writing came hard to him, and his nervous giggle earned him the nickname of Isaac (in Hebrew, "He laughs...
...present restrictions on foreign exploration, a loan "would be a disservice" to it and the U.S. Since oilmen guessed that Canada, in five years or so, would be one of the world's major producers of oil, it looked as though the longer Mexico waited, the slimmer would grow its chances of developing its oil lands...