Word: growning
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...worst thing that can happen to anybody is to grow up. Growing old is only part of it; if you don't grow up, how can you grow old? People start by making believe they are grown up and then, the first thing they know, they are. The look at their faces, which have gotten lined or baggy or twisted with pretending to be grown up, and they say "That is I." Sometimes they say "That is me"; then there is still hope for them. A. A. Milne, who wrote this book, is not like these people...
...never paid his bills, and a third was constantly running away from his wife. It was this last Pritchard who determined me to change my name. I received a letter from his wife. She begged me to return to her, saying that the daughter, Mary, had grown into a fine, tall, good-looking woman. So I changed my name to Zarh, which is Persian for light...
Meagre enough, these items, bearing as they do upon that awkward, austere, magical name whose connotation is an unquotable sum and an unknown personality. Yet, out of such flying hints, has grown the outline of a character, blurred at first, like a face vaguely limned in charcoal scratches, clarified little by little with inkier facts, until the quality and temper of the man have come to stand out distinct, significant...
...great many potatoes have been grown since Martin Luther, hammer in hand, tacked his famed 95 theses on the church door at Wittenburg, in 1517. In 400 years the Christian Church has been split a hundred different ways by apostasy. Sects have sprung up like mushrooms in the night; few have died...
...present has grown much too blase to do anything but yawn when confronted with the wonders of science. Even hideous gases and death-dealing ultra-what rays have lost their power to amuse us. We smile at chemistry, and, save when we experiment with the fuse-box in the dark, ignore the extraordinary possibilities of electricity. Complex machinery is to us as an open primer, and we positively gape when someone mentions advanced physics...