Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years, a horse in Captain Schultz's Circus performing in Rochester, N. Y.'s Centennial celebration last week, trotted a lion around the ring each afternoon & evening. Rain fell one afternoon and the board platform, set up outdoors in a park, grew wet and slick. In the midst of its act the horse slipped, nearly threw its rider. When the act was over the lion, a four-year-old named "Baby," lunged at the horse's throat. Its trainer was too quick for it, drove it from the ring...
That the quarrel grew really hot was clear when Japanese reporters, close respectively to Mr. Hirota and Admiral Osumi, claimed for each that he worsted the other. At the Foreign Office, Spokesman Amau, cheering for his chief Mr. Hirota, announced: "Admiral Osumi has at length recognized the Foreign Office's constitutional right to decide the method of conducting foreign affairs." Cheering for the Admiral, his spokesman said that Mr. Hirota could indeed choose his "method" but that the "substance" of Japan's naval demands to the Great Powers would be dictated by her Navy. Prognostications were that Japan will...
...from a reminiscence of her childhood in Kansas City. So fond was her older and only sister of buttermilk that her parents used to say: "We'll have to grow a buttermilk tree for you." Nura patiently waited for the tree, was told when she asked that they grew only on wishing rings...
Since the entire German Press is rigidly controlled, Pagan Hoppe could never have issued such a blast without authority. It stood unchallenged for over a fortnight while foreign furore grew. Suddenly last week the Hitler Youth discovered that August Hoppe had "falsely posed as the Hitler Youth press chief." It was further discovered that Hoppe had been expelled from the Hitler Youth. In a final effort to appease Christians, Pagan Hoppe was berated for his "heinous attacks on Christianity," and ordered to desist for one month, during which time his pagan organ Nordland was suppressed...
...stranger for his wife. The marriage has been a perfect success. Noma returned to Tokyo and an administrative position at the Imperial University, settled down to business. Several trading ventures, undertaken on the side, failed and he came to the conclusion he was no businessman. His first magazine grew out of a debating society. Founded in 1910 and still going strong, Yuben ("Eloquence") contains orations and essays by professors and students. Encouraged by its modest success, Noma ventured into the publishing world on a shoestring, begging, borrowing, digging deeper & deeper into debt, dodging creditors, pleading, threatening, making many a mistake...