Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Haake repeated his demands. Coordinator Berry's broad face grew red. Cried he: "You were sent down here to break up this meeting and you know...
Seven years out of Yale, Horace Taft founded Taft School in 1890, soon housed it in an old hotel at Watertown. Conn. Nourished by the eminence of the Taft name, it grew until by 1914 it was delivering up some 25 boys a year to Yale, plus a few to Harvard and Princeton. Headmaster Taft became the idol of his students and got on famously with parents, most of whom smiled at his long devotion to the cause of Prohibition. By 1927 the school ranked among the best in the country and Mr. Taft turned it over to a board...
Charles Franklin Kettering grew up on an Ohio farm, strained his eyes reading in bad light, had to get a friend to do his reading for him while he was studying at Ohio State. After working at National Cash Register, Mr. Kettering and Edward Andrew Deeds started Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co., sold Delco lighting plants to U. S. farmers. His best known invention-the self-starter for motorcars -was developed for Henry M. Leland, onetime head of Cadillac. General Motors got Mr. Kettering when they got Delco and Mr. Kettering is now head of General Motors Research Division...
...highly. On Page 1 of the Times's Sunday Book Review section appeared a typographical botch which any country editor would be ashamed to permit in his paper-a line which showed only as a faint, undecipherable blur. The type had obviously been scraped off. Readers' puzzlement grew to shock when, on Page 14 of the same section, they found a two-column, five-inch-high, grey smudge, beneath which was the following caption...
NOWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD- Gordon Enders with Edward Anthony- Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50). Interesting account of an enterprising U. S. aviator who grew up on the border of Tibet at the time of the Younghusband expedition, became an intimate adviser of the Panchen Lama. The book is filled with plausible explanations of international intrigue over Tibet, contains 64 unusual photographs. THROUGH FORBIDDEN TIBET-Harrison Forman - Longmans, Green ($3.50). More romantic record of the journey of a young U. S. airplane salesman in China who was attracted to Tibet by stories of a mountain higher than Everest, and by accounts...