Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tactics. Terse communiqués from the French War Ministry grew increasingly informative as the week's action developed in the Saar sector. Between the massive, deep networks of the Westwall proper and the international boundary, were not only forests of trees, but forests of pill boxes and blockhouses (called "Bunkers" by the Germans), bristling with machine guns and connected by deep trenches with the main fortifications behind. The machine guns were so placed that every foot of passable terrain was swept by two or more death-spitting muzzles. First task of the French was to feel out these...
...substitutes conventionalized pictures of men, machines, factories, whatever, each picture-unit representing any number the statistician states). He now heads the International Foundation for Visual Education. Out of his feeling, and that of his group in Vienna, that science should be a unified endeavor with a unified language, there grew a series of unification congresses and an International Encyclopedia of Unified Science (TiME, Aug. 1, 1938). The first two volumes were to comprise 20 monographs. Seven of these have now been published by the University of Chicago Press...
...when Stalin collectivized agriculture at the attested cost of 5,000,000 peasant lives. Lenin continually and publicly admitted his mistakes; Stalin gradually would tolerate nothing but adulation. And behind the façade of the U. S. S. R., the great Socialist world power, a late Roman corruption grew fantastically until to the west the façade seemed torn open by the "purge" of 1936-37, blasted by the Pact...
...distant planet called Krypton, whose inhabitants had a physical structure far more advanced than that of earth dwellers, but not enough perspicacity to keep their planet from blowing up like a grain of popcorn. In the debacle only the infant Superman escaped. Reared in an earthly orphanage, he grew to manhood, felt his oats, dedicated his life to helping those in need. In the eight months of his existence as a daily comic-strip character, Superman...
...idealistic, dynamic, personable young Siberian peasant who ran away at 16 to become a "Russian Lincoln." He became leader of a terrorist group, was exiled to Siberia, rose to a captaincy during the War, commanded both Red and White troops in the civil war, narrowly escaped "liquidation" when he grew disgusted with both sides...