Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first Court was the patriarch, who kept the peace within the family. The family was the first "peace group". But to keep peace within the family was not enough. As population grew and families crowded each other it was necessary to keep peace between the families in order that clusters of families might live together in a community or village. The justice of peace, or his equivalent in ancient civilization was the second step in the institution of Courts...
...keep the peace within a village. Inter-village war was still possible, and in primitive regions, such as the Philippines before the United States entered, there was no peaceful method of settling disputes between villages. The next step was to cluster the villages into a state, as Massachusetts grew from its town meetings, and to institute State Courts to keep the peace between communities. The next step was to cluster the States together into a National and to settle the disputes between the States by a Supreme Court. Our Supreme Court has settled eighty-seven such disputes between our States...
...propaganda may often grow far beyond its original purpose and get completely out of control. For example, take the story to the effect that during the War Germany boiled down the bodies of her dead soldiers to utilize the resultant fat for fertilizer. That story was released and grew as follows...
Lawitz Melchior, Danish tenor, six feet high. Once his voice was baritone, but like Jean de Reszke's, it grew higher-He will sing Wagnerian roles...
...knife. Think finally of Cinderella serving at his wedding to a greedy old harridan with money. Under such circumstances Cinderella might have taken to the streets. Molnar's did. There was a final act in a police court, in which the beauty and the poignancy of her suffering grew to a glowing climax...