Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tilt of the Brown Derby grew more and more confident last week, and with reason...
Tang Shao-yi might have added the concluding detail that Rescuer Hoover wrapped up a Chinababe in his coat, during the fire, and dashed with her from the house. She, a daughter of Tang Shao-yi, grew up to become that very great and smart lady, Mrs. Wellington Koo, whose husband was, before 40, ambassador to two big nations, twice a minister in the Chinese cabinet, twice a delegate to international conferences, and to the League Assembly...
...stayed at the inn, lying in a disheveled bed, beside the town drunkard. She helped Linda get the smooth slick townboy that her sister had always loved; and she observed with hurt wonder and dismay the way her own high-school boy friends turned away from her as they grew old enough to appreciate the fact that her guardian ran a fairly disreputable boarding place. When the old lodger in the garret died, his grandson came west from Harvard. He was what Dorrie had wanted and she, apparently, suited him. At the end of the story, it is a comparatively...
...Berlin, last week, Professor Eugen Steinach, medical Ponce de Leon, announced his possible discovery of a glandular fountain of youth. Injecting pituitary serum into docile, doddering rats, he noticed that they grew hair, an appetite, and sprightliness...
...particularly in the cases dealing with Hanoi Shan, shows that even the cleverest criminal meets his match. Many murders were committed by this Oriental, who with diabolical cleverness managed always to leave his victims in such a position that the demise seemed due to suicide. But finally Dr. Bertillon grew suspicious, and even this master of murderers was foiled by the science of detection...