Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London the entire course of negotiation was toward Peace without Punishment last week, and in their efforts to contrive this the harassed statesmen daily got to bed about 3 a. m. Faces grew haggard and tempers short, but there was always French champagne at London's diplomatic meals and the pleasure of being accorded a private audience with His Majesty the King-a pleasure generously bestowed all round by Edward VIII last week, notably upon Hitler's von Ribbentrop...
...name in Fairbanks, Alaska is that of Robert M. Crawford, shortened to "Klondike Bob" by the sourdoughs who knew him 30 years ago. As a shaggy-haired lad of 7 he went among the miners passing his fur hat, singing In the Good Old Summer Time. As Bob Crawford grew up, he was more & more determined to make his way in the world. At 16, as a surveyor on the Alaska Railroad, he earned enough to get to Princeton where he paid his way by working in a Ford service station. At Princeton (Class of 1925) he made much...
...tight-lipped listener was Mrs. Aimé, well-loved sister of WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins. Last week, explaining that Mrs. Meyer's speech had already caused Brother Harry some embarrassment in the form of crank letters and might cause him more as the political campaign grew hotter, Sister Adah resigned her new job as National Youth Administration director for three New York counties, declared : "It is too bad my work in the district has not been allowed to stand or fall on its merits. The leading social workers of the county . . . urged my appointment and induced me to accept...
Cover-to-cover readers grew a little tired of Poet Engle's almost invariable poem-scheme: a long rush of blank-verse rhetoric leading up to a short rush of lyrical finale. His gift of oratory sometimes led him on past the point of pleasure or even edification. By the end of his book. Poet Engle himself had grown a little tired...
...flood conditions along the Merrimac River grew rapidly worse yesterday, the Student Council appropriated $100 to the Red Cross to aid in the relief work. This appropriation was in addition to the $800 given earlier in the year...