Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modernistic decoration is wood, wood, wood. Witty new Member of Parliament A. P. Herbert, famed Punch contributor, wrote on sailing day, "As for the cabins-as for the eiderdowns, and the spacious beds, and the cupboards and looking-glasses and bathrooms . . . some British Homer should . . . describe where grew the trees that gave those polished panels, what cunning joiner it was that fitted them, what sempstress, nay, what silkworm it was that worked upon the bedcovers...
...voyagers grew more & more at home, they liked especially the easy gradient of the outside deck stairways ("Easiest to climb on any ship"); the typically British kindness to animals in the ship's dog house where a fatherly sailor seemed busy all day petting, stroking, brushing; and the superb "front seat driver's view" of where the Queen Mary is heading obtained from the crescent-shaped bar forward...
...Captain G. F. Jones, an old seaman who had sailed, against the advice of the British Government, without an armed guard. Tatagu welcomed Missionary Jones and his white God. Among the first ten pupils in the school which the Adventist mariner established was small Kata Ragoso. This black Christian grew up to succeed his father as Chief of Chiefs, to become an ordained Adventist minister. Kata Ragoso helped the white men convert 5,000 of the islanders, at one time brought all 400 inhabitants of one island to Christ. Kata Ragoso learned how to run a printing press and, with...
...consti-tuents." Quail 'Legging. Some political observers concluded that Pat Harrison was considerably perturbed about his coming election fight when they heard a story which angry wildlife conservationists were telling last week. Source of vast alarm to sportsmen and conservationists in recent years has been quail bootlegging, which grew up as an organized racket in Mississippi shortly after the War, has since spread to neighboring states and is seriously depleting the South's supply of its most popular game bird. Quail are trapped by farmers, bought by racketeers who sell them in violation of State and Federal laws...
Pittsburgh's market, which grew out of an oldtime oil exchange, is housed in a one-story building on Fourth Avenue, Pittsburgh's Wall Street. About $30,000,000 worth of stock changed hands there last year, giving it ninth place in the list of registered exchanges. Most active stock last year was Carnegie Metals, which has nothing to do with steel. The company owns gold and silver mines in Mexico. Another Pittsburgh favorite is San Toy Mining, which also owns Mexican mines. One hundred shares of San Toy cost $2. President of the Pittsburgh Exchange is Ralph...