Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...twelve when shredded wheat was born, and worked and played in father's laboratory. I grew up under the influence of his enthusiasms, worked in every department of his factory, made some inventions of my own, and in 1920 invented Muffets. Now I am, myself, conservatively but with great hopes, introducing what I consider the first new departure since my father's in the line of popular ''cereals...
PIERRE WERTHEIMER Rabbits, horses, perfumes. from Manhattan to San Francisco, from. Toronto to Mexico. He returned to France the following year, became a member of the firm. A distributing company was formed, in Manhattan. Bourjois grew to be the third largest manufacturer of perfumes in the world. Pierre Wertheimer, within the last few years, has given more and more interest to breeding race horses at his 14th century barony in the Gironde district, to hunting at his lodge 100 miles from Paris. Cinema. With $1,600 saved from the cloak & suit business William Fox bought his first theatre...
More and more novels. More and more notoriety. More and more money. The Belly of Paris captured the public. Zola grew fatter, became a bluff, boorish figure in cafe & salon life. People revolted at Naturalism but read it. Staunchly its founder proceeded, one thousand words...
...lowly Parisian life rooted naturalism in the literary soil. Zola married an intelligent, passionate woman. He met weekly with Gustave Flaubert, Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Ivan Turgeniev. He was famed, fat crammed with food. He worked incessantly ? news articles, plays, novels. His villa at Medan. outside Paris, grew in bulk and reputation. Its owner was excoriated, saluted, accused, defended. Madame Zola remained childless...
...increase in sales from $289,218 to $1,297,801 in the last 25 years is the record of the Harvard Cooperative Society from 1903 to 1928, This increase, reflected in the amounts of dividends paid to members, which grew from $12,426 in 1903 to $86,500 in 1928, is shown by a study of the Society's record during this period of years...