Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rose slowly and went downstairs.... After a while, we grew worried.... There he stood, frozen solid under a shower. He'd left a farewell note--but I can't betray his confidence...
...formation of this Advisory Committee grew out of a resolution adopted by the Fifth Assembly of the League of Nations on September 22, 1924. In this resolution the Council of the League was requested to convene a committee of experts representing the main forms of civilization and the principal legal systems of the world, which should have the duty, without trespassing in any way upon the official initiative which may have been taken by particular states...
...young men grew older. At length, one of them grew quite elderly. Last week, the Good Young Man, 66, went to the aid of the Rich Young Man, 55, in a battle in which both Riches and Goodness were of superlative importance...
...Ranch Show, doubtless gained from it the impression that travelers in the western portion of the U. S. trembled before the tomahawk and the six-shooter. Begun informally, casually, when the Millers permitted some of their cowboys to perform at a local fair, the 101 Ranch Show grew into a circus that netted the Millers a million dollars a year. Sideshows it had, and freaks, and many a Bearded Lady and Human Skeleton vacationed during the winter in elegant quarters on the Millers' luxurious ranch at Marland, Okla. But it was essentially a Wild West Show, with buffaloes...
...Trovatore and Traviata but that pretty stage passed swiftly. A peasant streak came out. Moussorgsky loved Russia and its history. He loved the people and the soil whence they came. He would put them in his music and that music would be unfixed by petty patterns. So the idea grew and out of it came songs with strange, bright har monies and crazy, reckless rhythms. Came Boris with its savage splendor and Tchaikovsky wrote: &"As for Moussorgsky's music, it can go to the devil for all I care - it is a low, vile parody of the real thing...