Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, two days before last week's Weirton primaries, the "procedure" rules came from the Labor Board, Founder Weir grew warm under his collar...
...sense of humor. Last week they played a practical joke on the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (TIME, Dec. 11). The joke kept august delegates of 21 American nations standing hungrily about in a great marble hall for more than an hour and a half while their dinner grew dry and stale...
William Rockhill Nelson migrated to Kansas City from Indiana 55 years ago, founded the Star which quickly grew to fame. Known as the Baron of Brush Creek, he died in 1915. By his will, and those of his wife and daughter a $12,000,000 trust fund from the sale of the Star to its employes was set up to build a great museum, to fill it with treasures.* There was only one important restriction: the museum may only buy the works of artists 30 years dead...
...American University, following the impress of Harvard, grow up as a single scholastic college to which graduate and vocational schools soon attached themselves. At Harvard the college itself remained a college of liberal arts, and when its intellectual interests grew it burst the thongs of a prescribed, regular curriculum to run amok in an elective system which soon threatened the liberality of its standards in an avalanche of vocational courses, and in the graduation of men whose college career became a very limited and illiberal thing. To this Mr. Lowell became heir in 1909; from the first he announced...
Pious Old Paul von Hindenburg grew so troubled by the Nazi v. non-Nazi schism in German Protestantism that Catholic Chancellor Hitler had to call on the Protestant President one day last week and personally assure him that somehow everything would come out all right...