Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...became a professor of music, and now teaches in the Eastman School of Music in Rochester. Youngest son was Stephen, an asthmatic little fellow on whom the children of other professors picked most, thereby provoking Philosopher Royce to write six-page letters of protest to their parents. Little Stephen grew broad and strong, turned into a rough & tumble mining engineer...
Chief job of answering the thrusts of unconstitutionality which Republican wheelhorses hurled at the AAA substitute fell to Senator Joseph T. Robinson, who would like some day to sit on the Supreme Court himself. So angry grew the Arkansan in argument with Senator Hastings of Delaware, so violently did he thump his desk, that he broke his inkwell...
During the second period the Harvard team grew sloppier and constantly lost the ball on errors. Captain White began the scoring with a field goal two minutes after the period began. Toan and Thomas soon put the Green well out in front, however, with good passing and accurate shooting. With four minutes and twenty seconds to go, Harvard took a time out, and when play was resumed Dartmouth succeeded in slowing up the play until the gun went...
...second-hand clothes dealer who never had enough spare stock to supply his son with a coat to match his trousers. Small Stark envied the boy who lived across the street, whose name was Walter Winchell, and who owned a Buster Brown suit of blue serge. When he grew up Dolly Stark became a professional baseball player. He gave it up in 1921, went to Dartmouth as basketball coach three years later, kept up his interest in baseball by umpiring summers. In 1927, he became a professional umpire in the Eastern League, succeeded well enough for the National League...
...twin-motored, low-wing monoplane which revolutionized air transport the world over. The first commercial transport plane the 12-year-old Douglas Aircraft Co. had ever built, it and the improved DC2 speedily lifted the company from insignificance to leadership. Simultaneously, the little Douglas factory at Santa Monica, Calif., grew into the world's largest airplane manufacturing plant...