Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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State, Illinois, where the "Coolidge-anyway" movement of Governor Small and Mayor William Hale ("Big Bill") Thompson grew daily in transparency and disrepute...
...fire had started when an ill-greased axle grew hot and hotter, began to spew forth sparks, and finally set the wooden sleeping car afire. Flames danced in the corridor, awakened the attendant. With a bound he leaped for the nearest stop-signal cord, found it already useless, burned through...
...weeks the chosen wheat of California saw the light of twelve argon-filled lamps, 300-candlepower each. Touched by no sun's ray, rooted in no soil, the wheat grew and flourished, drawing sustenance from jars of water in which the necessary chemical elements were dissolved. Although sun was excluded from the green house, the sun rays which contribute to plant growth were present in the electric light rays...
...really an ineffectual, then there is a fly in the cream pitcher, a tenuous tragedy. Put the ineffectual (Theo Bissaker) on a fruit farm in Verdriet, South Africa, make him physically unable to labor, give him a stupid wife whom he married as a sympathetic gesture and grew to despise-and the cream has indeed been polluted. Theo Bissaker stakes everything on his painting (it is awful). There is no market in South Africa for fitful canvases. Finally, he leaves home, finds a job in the coal mines near Johannesburg. When he hears that his mother is threatened with cancer...
...Case Plow Works, incorporated in 1876 at Racine, Wis., grew to be a $1,000,000 company, employing 600 persons. Last week it was bought by Massey Harris Co. Ltd., of Toronto...