Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Anne Parrish and her brother Dillwyn must have had a collection of aunts, grandmothers and female neighbors all of whom they loved until it hurt but who nearly drove them insane with fuss-budgeting, shilly-shallying, dibble-dabbling, microscopic solicitude and spiritual myopia. As the young authors-to-be grew up, quick-witted, sensitive, gay, they must have talked together for hours about these people and their plight - perhaps in a meadow like the dewy one in their book Knee-High to aGrasshopper - and been consumed by that uncomfortable emotion which is a mixture of furious exasperation and profound pity...
...called modern. St. Bonaventure's is as little concerned with the outside world as it is with the early lives of its members - now all disguised as Brother Benedict, Brother Cosmos and the like (no Brothers Pete, Mike, Joe or Henry). The village, where the author grew up, is of a similar unworldliness - perhaps a thought too Arcadian since the villagers oscillate between the modern vernacular and a strong resemblance to Hans the blacksmith, ; Schwartz the butcher and other such traditional creatures. But out of his acquaintance with real monks Mr. Shuster has wrought an atmosphere of which...
...dust so that we all but choked, even with scafrs bound around our faces. We halted long enough to pass a rope from one to the other of us so that we should not become separated; then for a while we proceeded in this fashion, but eventually the all grew so thick that we could not see a camel's length before us, and were forced to make the panting Meharis kneel. What a storm that was! The wind scoured our faces, hands, and any other exposca parts, with a merciless rain of flying sand, filling the pockets...
...confronted Cavour and Bismarck, but it is in the difference of treatment, and particularly in the history of the two nations in the years immediately after their unification that the chief interest lies. "Italy's appetite", said Bismarck, "had grown before its teeth." He saw to it that Germany grew teeth first...
Searching for the origin of cataracts on the human eye, Dr. John M. Wheeler of New York University Medical School, like the British physiologists who plucked the eyes from unborn chicks and found that they grew in "a surprisingly natural way" (TIME, Oct. 4), ripped bits of living tissue from the eyes of chicken embryos. These bits he placed in hollow glass slides and kept in incubators. Every 48 hours the detached tissue cells reproduced themselves, proving as Dr. Alexis Carrel has been doing for almost 15 years with his chicken-heart tissue (TIME, Nov. 30, 1925), that cell life...