Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miners had broken up and the operators had gone home. John L. Lewis, head of the United Mine Workers, and his assistants were busy preparing telegrams calling the strike. Mr. McGrady asked to have the strike-call canceled because the President did not want a strike. Miner Lewis grew huffy. If so, he demanded, why had not the Department of Labor told him that the President did not want a strike? Why wait till he was sending out the call? Telegrams cost money...
...time. Helped by his oldtime experience as an overland mail contractor. Publisher Cowles studied maps and railroad timetables, learned the location of every town and hamlet in Iowa, memorized the schedules of every train out of Des Moines. As the Register circulation machine began to work, a Register-habit grew steadily throughout the State. At the end of the first year the paper earned $9,000, has never failed to make money since. Circulation mounted...
...their collaboration Drs. Carrel & Lindbergh reported: "Changes in form and volume took place in the organs from day to day. Thyroid glands perfused with diluted serum were observed to decrease in size progressively. On the contrary, ovaries or thyroids perfused with a growth-promoting medium modified their form and grew rapidly. In five days, the weight of an ovary increased from 90 mg. to 284 mg." Simultaneously yellow spots which developed on the ovaries suggested that they, while attached to the glass heart, might actually have produced eggs. If so, laboratory technicians conceivably might some day fertilize and incubate such...
...small but genuine collection of early U. S. autographs did he prosper. Discovering his own ability at copying hand-writings, he started in a small way by putting the signatures of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin (his favorite characters) on the fly leaves of old books. As his skill grew, so did his audacity. To make detection more difficult, most of the Spring forgeries were sent to England and Canada for sale and circulation. Because Britain was still sentimentally fond of the Confederate States, Forger Spring invented a new character, a respectable maiden lady known as Miss Fanny Jackson, only...
Catherine was the second of three daughters; her mother was a long-suffering woman who shared her daughters' adoration for their father, a wife-beating drunkard who had brought back a wooden leg from the war. As the children grew up, the eldest became a zealous partner in her father's milk business, but the two younger ones, Catherine and Angele, each dreamed of the boy who was to marry her some day. At last he came, disguised as an old toymaker. Thereafter he appeared in various guises, but he finally turned out to be the long-lost...