Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gorgeous, jewel-studded robes the Serbian Patriarch and his bishops celebrated with their priests and acolytes the complex rite of Orthodox High Mass. Sonorously the dead King's virtues were intoned: ''Courage! . . " soldierly simplicity! ... determination!" As the organ swelled a moving Orthodox dirge, sobs grew loud throughout the Cathedral. Scarcely able to stand as she left the service. Dowager Queen Marie of Jugoslavia tottered in the arms of her mother, Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania. Lest one or both should break down on the grueling three-mile funeral march a Ford sedan was held in readiness...
...Cambridge's mayoral processions touched off the smouldering spark at 8 o'clock last night, with a mob of about twenty Freshmen gathering to cheer and later to yell 'Rinehart." While Yard cops searched nooks and crannies of the Yard for the missing Colonel, the riot grew to Gargantuan proportions, practically doubling its original number of recruits. Only heroic action by the Yard's defenders broke the back of the rebellion...
...been written. When, 19 years ago, Publisher Scribner asked Author Freeman to write a biography of Lee, he expected it to be a one-volume affair, soon discovered to his surprise that "much the larger part of the source material had never been consulted." The job grew under his hand, when finished will fill four fat volumes. But Biographer Freeman turned up no startling new facts. "There were no 'secrets' and no scandals to be exposed or explained." Lee's reputation as a soldier and a gentleman will not be tarnished by his latest biographer. Author Freeman...
...made from hot oil, which the independent refiners bought for as low as 30? per bbl. The big companies ("major" to the trade) had to pay the posted price of $1 for what legal crude they bought in the open market. As backers of the gasoline pool, the "majors" grew weary of holding the bag for every "hot" refiner from Kilgore to the Gulf of Mexico. As soon as the "majors" ceased to support the gasoline market, they turned around and declared war on the hot refiners. From the Southwest, where some independents swore they would give it away...
Early in the Century when Roosevelt I was jousting with Big Business, the idea of a Federal incorporation law was seriously pondered. But, as the nation grew richer, the subject of corporate reform grew less interesting. Last week, under Roosevelt II national charters were up again, this time in the sixth report of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee on their findings of the past three years. Said the Committee...