Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harvard shell jumped almost a length at the start, and opened up water gradually at a steady 32 stroke till it had a three length lead at the bridge. Here the water grew rougher, and although both crews dropped the stroke to a 30, the Crimson eight continued to draw gradually ahead, and held its lead in the final sprint, covering the mile and 5-16 in 7 minutes 7 seconds. The engineers were clocked at 7 minutes 25 seconds...
Fifty haphazard years of jerrybuilding followed. The Civil War focused national attention upon the capital and its miserable estate. Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself. Washington grew out of its youthful squalor, but recklessly, without unity or good taste. Architecture went on a gingerbread spree?viz. the State, War & Navy Building, the Post Office Department Building. The L'Enfant plan was forgotten...
...junkman." The "junkman" was a neutral or valueless ship detained by Capt. von Müller to be used as a floating hotel for the crews and passengers of destroyed vessels. When loaded to capacity, the "junkman" was released and sent steaming off to the nearest port. So bloated grew the Emden with provisions from her victims that Captain von Müller gave a band concert every afternoon and served coffee and bonbons to his crew...
Helen Kane sings in an idiom and with an inflection peculiar to the Bronx, N. Y., where she grew up and where her father ran a neighborhood store. In vaudeville she was one of those fat, supernaturally stupid girls who serve up joke cues to dapper comedians. Later, in Broadway nightclubs, her fame spread as a singer of semi-salacious, contemporary folk songs. She sang with Paul Ash's orchestra, later in the musical comedy Good Boy. Young men in eastern colleges have voted for her as their favorite actress...
Artist Diego Rivera believes in revolution, so he dresses the part. He is, however, no ferocious cinema "greaser." He is genial, cultured, industrious. His repute grew, his geniality increased, when last week he was awarded the annual Fine Arts Medal of the American Institute of Architects.* Artist Rivera's concept of revolution has nothing to do with either Pope or bombshells. It might be described as a patient communism, and it is reflected in his art. For him, art is a proletariat function, growing out of the hot little huts of peons, expressing their lives...