Word: grew
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chronicles of more regent date make it clear, that Miss. Claire's personal glances into the pages of history were first made in Washington, D. C., where she grew up and went to public school. Her father was killed in an accident four months before she was born. Although her present familiarity with the great figures of the past suggests, perhaps correctly, long silent hours devoted to scholarship, friends recall that her penchant for playing hooky worried her mother a lot until Ina convinced her that, as she had already determined to become an actress, she did not need...
Meantime many others were moved to speak. Lobbyist Shearer, after saying that he had been helped by receiving confidential information from Naval officials alone, grew suddenly silent, counseled by Daniel Florence Cohalan, able Manhattan attorney...
...shape of one hyena, to the laughter of which was later added the roar of a lion and the leaps of a kangaroo. It was not until he had been for several seasons a circus man that Mr. Ringling even saw an elephant. But gradually the show grew bigger, the animals wilder, the freaks more peculiar and the patronage more substantial. In 1907 Mr. Ringling bought control of Barnum & Bailey, became leader of the industry which he now dominates. His combined employe list totals some 6,500, and his wealth is estimated in eight figures...
Sixty years ago Clothesman Rosenberg's father Herman founded the business which is now Fashion Park. At the same time one Nathan Stein founded another Rochester wholesale tailoring business which became Stein-Bloch, Inc. Together they grew, prospered. In time, so excellent became their clothes that retailers saw advantage in breaking the custom which demanded that a suit bear only the retailer's label. Thereafter the name Stein-Bloch or Fashion Park appeared with the retailer's name on the inside breast pocket of many a U. S. citizen's suit. Prominent among retailers to adopt...
...gases, a phenomenon only now being put to industrial use. Konel Metal. News of a new and valuable alloy was despatched to the Congress by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Erwin Foster Lowry, 38, Michigan-born Ohio State graduate, had compounded nickel, cobalt and ferrotitanium. Result was a metal which grew stronger the hotter it was heated. Other metals become weaker with heat. Mr. Lowry's alloy has a tensile strength of 60,000 lbs. per sq. in. at 600° C. (1112° F.). At the same temperature chrome nickel steel's tensile strength...