Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Colonial New England grew away from the rivers and valleys and Harvard was no exception to the rest of the country. But in the same way the college was not far behind when railroads and better transportation drew the population into the once dangerous lowlands. The movement from the Yard to Mount Auburn Street started with the transfer of the athletic center to Soldiers Field in 1891 and was closely followed by the erection of the famous "Gold Coast" dormitories...
...hundred and forty-three years ago the tycoons of the Honorable East India Co. built some tea warehouses and a squalid village on the muddy banks of the River Hoogly. Thus was founded the City of Calcutta. It was a wise location. The village grew, became "The City of Palaces." Last week engineers began to sink drills and explore the substrata of the Hoogly to a depth of 100 feet. Soon a subway will burrow under, connecting the quarters of Howrah and Sealdah. Proud Indians know that today only two cities in the British Commonwealth have subways: London and Sydney...
...both governments grew thoroughly irritated, the Chinese and Soviet official press services started up a game they have not played for a fortnight ? the dangerous sport of announcing that while "our troops" were trying to maintain an inoffensive guard along the China-Russian frontier, "their troops" were raiding across the border, thus obliging "our troops" to engage the rascals and drive them back where they belonged...
...built railroads, finally (1908) made the Congo a Belgian colony as his gift to the Belgian people. In 1909 Leopold began an attempt to interest British capital in the Congo, sent one Dr. Max Horn to Lord Leverhulme. Dr. Horn pointed out that many a fine waving palm tree grew in the Congo, that many a cake of Sunlight could be made from Congo oils. While negotiations were in progress. King Leopold died (December 1909), to be succeeded by Albert, with whom the Congo concession was finally concluded...
...Uglier grew the crowd. "We want no underfed beauty queens here!" cried a roughster. "Let's make her eat some pork!" As the rowdies rushed, even saucy Magda Dimitrescu became frightened, seized Lisl Goldarbeiter by the wrist, dragged her through a baggage room and out by a back alley to sanctuary in the Bucharest Rumanian Orthodox Cathedral...