Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valley of the Atchafalaya river, flowing through swamp districts of Louisiana, bands of outlaws looked forward to starvation or surrender. Houseboats guarded them from the flood, but food grew constantly scarcer. Rescue meant prison...
Only a bare score of followers surrounded General Gallegos when the Federal troops finally caught up to him at Tepozan last week. Federal rifles barked and suddenly the General's horse, wounded, grew knock-kneed, whinneyed in agony, sagged and toppled. As Rodolfo Gallegos struggled to rise, the troops broke through his men and were upon him. Pitiless, they pumped lead, then jabbed swords, into fat General Gallegos until he expired, butchered. Near Nogales, Ariz., 33 rebel Mexican Indians fled across the border to be lodged in a protective U. S. jail...
...until two years ago, when he was 15, did they tell Oscar Greenberg who he was. He insisted on going to live with his mother. At home he found Mollie Greenberg but as she grew into a ripe young Jewish woman of 15, he could not think of her as his sister. Two months ago they eloped, married. Last week they were apprehended in their secret home. The judge held them in $500 bail for incest...
...three weeks (TIME, May 2), most Tokyo banks opened last week voluntarily, displaying huge piles of bank notes on their counters to convince depositors that all who wanted it could withdraw spot cash.* By this stratagem the public was apparently convinced that immediate disaster did not impend, and withdrawals grew lighter as the week progressed. Eventually re-depositing began and the panic seemed...
Rivaling the incredibility of the Wessels-hen (see above) is the Hilturnip. This turnip, located on the farm of one T. G. Hill, near Corpus Christi, Tex., grew up in a cabbage patch. Responding to environment, it swelled larger, larger, larger. Finally it reached a diameter of 25 inches, a weight of 12 pounds. Civically proud, the Corpus Christi Chamber of Commerce placed the Hill turnip on exhibition...