Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...births of Dwight Locke Wilbur's boys, Curtis Dwight and Ray Lyman?eight Iowa years during which the residents of little Boonesboro could foresee that Curtis Dwight Wilbur would grow to be a tall man with large hands, feet, ears and nose. Later, as younger Ray Lyman Wilbur grew up they could see that he, too, would be the "string bean" type. It also became apparent that, despite the years separating them, there was to be fraternal rivalry between the Wilbur boys for position in the world and prestige among...
...only on Red Cross bounty. . . . Congressman Gifford (Massachusetts) describing himself as a Cape Cod turnip raiser, wanted the rates on this commodity hoisted from 12 to 50¢ to shut out Canadian importations. Georgia's Crisp begged for better treatment of peanuts in the next tariff act. Maine's Hersey grew damp-eyed as he told of the plight of the potato producers in his State...
Serena Blandish was born near the docks of London. When she grew up, she was carried off by a Countess who wished her to make a brilliant marriage. This Serena was incompetent to do. She accepted a ring from a Jewish jeweler and she accepted a luncheon engagement with Lord Ivor Cream. The ring led to embarrassments and the luncheon engagement led, not to another engagement of a more permanent nature, but to tea. Martin, the Countess's butler, gloomily observed: "A lady who stays to tea where she has been invited to luncheon never gets engaged...
...creating in Ann Arbor and Michigan opinion. In Lansing was Governor Fred Warren Green, able Republican lawyer, who liked to busy himself with education. The governor wanted more uni versity control vested in his Republican legislature. This was one thing the young President could not stand. Between them grew an inevitable personal dislike. One time Governor Green kept President Little waiting one hour in an anteroom of the State Capitol. President Little had requested an interview about a proposed tax survey. Finally Dr. Little returned to Ann Arbor sans interview. It was then freely rumored that Governor Green might remove...
Then the reports from the correctors began to come in. All the unsigned books were well above passing and the majority reached the honors level. As the number grew, the record of the unknown approached that of the famous Theocrates Didymus, who took and passed 26 final examinations in 1888. But before that point was reached, the dentity of the unknown was discovered...