Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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California. Fossils of two extinct species were found for the first time on the Pacific slope. One, announced by Dr. Chester Stock of Caltech, was a titanothere -a vegetarian mammal of 30,000,000 years ago, larger than an Indian elephant, which grew a preposterously thick and spreading horn from its snout and browsed with its lips because its front teeth were useless. The other fossil was the skull of a 20-ft. whale which 15,000,000 years ago had a three-foot beak. It was discovered by University of California undergraduates while doing field work in entomology...
...desperate attempt to save its life, the Metropolitan sold its independence. Price: $150,000. The buyer was the Juilliard Musical Foundation, created by the late Augustus D. Juilliard, a native of Stark County, Ohio, who migrated to Manhattan and made a fortune in textiles. As Augustus Juilliard grew old he tired of making money and opera became his interest. Nearly every night he was to be seen in Box No. 2, where in 1919 he was seized with his fatal illness. In his will he left $14,000,000 to music, stipulating that it should be used to provide training...
...nnhildes who followed Lehmann Milka Ternina, a Croat, was easily next best. Lilian Nordica from Farmington, Me. sang better than she acted. Olive Fremstad's impersonation was abundant with feeling but often uncontrolled. Johanna Gadski sang so long past her prime that her first excellent performances grew dim in memory. The current outstanding Brünnhildes are Frida Leider and Gertrude Kappel. Both give the rôle its true heroic proportions but their voices are no longer young...
Married. Grant Wood, Iowa artist (American Gothic, Dinner For Threshers -TIME, Dec. 24); and Mrs. Sara Sherman Maxon, music teacher in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where both grew up; in Minneapolis...
...stock and bond quotations melted, railroad investors grew fearful that some headline calamity was imminent. One Southern Railway (mileage: 8,017) bond issue dropped eight points in a single session, and New York, New Haven & Hartford (mileage: 2,072) issues sank five points to new lows for the year, around 25? or 30? on the dollar. New Haven's new president Howard S. Palmer, who succeeded John Jeremiah Pelley last autumn, felt obliged to announce: "We are not contemplating any reorganization at this time...