Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they roamed the shady dells covered with the shining mahogany grass where the fizzbells bloomed or rambled in the glades where there was a musical tinkle dripping from the keg trees. The streams gurgled with ice water, the brandy bees buzzed over the wild eggnog vines and the rumroots grew juicy in the earth beneath the sherry berry thickets...
...attempts to write a biography of Beecher. It has already been done so much better than he could ever hope to do it. He reminds one of a second-rate doctor who was called to prescribe for a sick child. His medicine was not beneficial and the child grew worse. Finally the family doctor, a first class physician, was called. He did not criticise the parents for calling the other. He simply said: "Dr. Jones knows something about the disease he thinks is afflicting little Freddie ; but he doesn't know Freddie." And Freddie was an important factor...
Then the naval mutinies broke out in the south of France (TIME, Oct. 10) and the voice of the French press grew louder. The Government, earnestly desiring to avoid a row, according to Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, was last week compelled by force of public opinion to demand unequivocally the recall of Soviet Ambassador Rakovsky from France...
...Born as the son of a gardner, John Paul appeared like an obscure speck in the middle of the broad canvas of the 18th Century-a canvas streaked with blood, murder, rebellion, greed, and many winds of doctrine." In Scotland, John Paul grew up on a rocky soil, dotted with small hard flowers, flanked by the blue and white banner of the sea. The sea, before long, became his native place; he loved ships and the spin of water under a whirling bow; he once wrote down: "I will not have anything to do with ships which do not sail...
Every age has its mythology, and the nearest approach to the genuine in modern times is in thumb-nail accounts such as this. As ancient myths grew in the telling, so do their modern counterparts, and such phrases as "We" gather about themselves a wealth of imaginative color. But also, as the ancient myths came to be liberally disproved, so are modern ones likely to fall, the most recent casualty coming with the reported statement of Col. Lindbergh that "We" did not in reality refer to himself and his plane. But, also like older myths, present ones are not easily...