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Word: grew (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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This actually resulted from a totally different cause, grew out of a squabble originally little noticed by the press - the so-called "German flag controversy" (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Luther Rests | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...time also a man came forward, if one may call a man, one whom his Disciples called the Son of God. His being and his figure were quite human, a man of middle size with a stooping back and a long face, a prominent nose and with brows which grew together so that those who saw him would get frightened, with very little hair and having in the middle of his forehead a sign, according to the habit of the Nazarenes. His looks were quite simple, only his pose was more than human because he performed wonders through some invisible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Christ's Figure | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...apply his crop-growing abilities to motor firms. By 1910 he was President of the Buick Motor Car Co. Later he served four years as President of General Motors. In 1916 he founded the company which bears his name, a business which is the greatest crop he ever grew. Last year its net profits were $16,256,000, and in January, 1926, resulting in the 900% stock dividend. Naturally Mr. Nash was not worried by a little excitement in a big room somewhere in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Nash Motors | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...increase in numbers entirely to wipe out that traditional division. But at Harvard they have been trying to work out a solution of the large college problem, the student council committee on education proposing to the university that a group of small college units be formed, such as grew up historically at Oxford and Cambridge. The Harvard undergraduates have been voting on this, and have declined to back their council on the plan in this first public consideration of it. It is certainly not a solution that would be acceptable to Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Considers Pros and Cons of Division Into Small Colleges | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...Author. Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne was born in Manhattan less than 40 years ago, with a long north-of-Ireland genealogy. From three on, he grew up on the family estate in Ireland, getting faery lore and the Gaelic. His college learning was at Dublin, Paris, Leipzig; he served an editorial apprenticeship in the U. S. Until he wrote Messer Marco Polo (1921), few guessed his genius and there were money struggles, hard ones. His wife, Dolly Donn-Byrne, writes too-collaborated with Gilda Varesi on the play Enter Madame. There are four little Donn-Byrnes, including the twins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Wry Blarney | 5/17/1926 | See Source »

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