Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phillips family fortune, made in shipping and real estate and preserved in the best New England tradition, stands behind him. His shapely head, long nose and aristocratically petulant mouth were born to him. He went to Harvard in the same class (1900) with, three other young men who grew up to be eminent U. S. diplomats by profession, William R. Castle Jr., Robert Woods Bliss, Peter Augustus Jay. Billy Phillips' career matched his endowments. After college a classmate and a fellow Porcellian, Bayard Cutting, elder brother of the late Senator from New Mexico, went to London as private secretary...
...Nations add oil, the lifeblood of Italy's war machine in Ethiopia, to the list of products banned under Sanctions, then Dictator Benito Mussolini might indeed do something silly. As the polished diplomatic game of understatements and euphemisms in three languages went on last week, a distinct possibility grew that, as in 1914, the talented Ambassadors, Foreign Ministers, Premiers, Presidents and Kings of Europe may find to their genuine surprise and dismay that a situation has been created calling for their soldiers, sailors and airmen...
...Geschwitz, as bewitched by Lulu as were the many men who loved her. The whole story seemed revolting in its episodic outline. But Berg's music was not to be discounted. Murky, rumbly drums actually suggested an evil, brooding power. The entire orchestra chattered over one gruesome death, grew lyrical when the composer wanted sympathy for his heroine, reached an awful climax when Lulu was slain. Austria's Alban Berg is one of the few real modernists who has been able to write effective theatre music, subduing atonality and the twelve-tone scale to a truly urgent feeling...
...Indianapolis' county jail 80 prisoners grew nauseated after their noon meal. Sheriff Otto Ray thought that someone, perhaps hoping for a jailbreak, had poured disinfectant into the gravy...
...Spain's Murcia Province 6,000 citizens ate bread made from flour containing powdered lead, whereupon 6,000 stomachs churned, 12,000 legs grew numb. The flour distributor, one Jose Merono Olmos, was held in $35,000 bail, tentatively assessed $70,000 damages...