Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voices of politicians grew loud in the land, crowding even swing off the air, radio listeners last week did not hear two opponents debating (but not broadcasting) with poise and dignity from one platform in Marietta, Ohio. Republican Robert Alphonso Taft and Democrat Robert Johns Bulkley had agreed, while fighting for the latter's Senate seat, to hold at least six debates in the good old Lincoln-Douglas tradition...
...automobile, sum up his career a few years back. On April 19, 1892 he first scooted his pace-setting gasoline buggy along leafy Taylor Street in Springfield, Mass, to give the four-billion-dollar automobile industry its first real push. His contraption was pretty primitive. It grew out of a love for horses ("Think of it. We have no tails to dock, no checkreins, no whips, no blinders, no sore backs") and at one stage in the gasoline buggy's development he even considered building a buggy with a tractor unit shaped like a horse in order...
Since 1795, when Louisiana's Etienne de Bore grew the first U.S. sugar cane for commercial use, cane crops have been harvested, like cotton, by hand. Negroes mow their way through the cane fields with knives like tropical machetes. Efforts have been made to mechanize the reaping of both cotton and sugar. Several cotton-pickers have been invented which have proved that they can pick cotton, but their practical efficiency and adaptability have been seriously disputed, and they have so far made no visible inroads on the South's labor economy...
...doctors are still in the dark about the exact size of the injection in many unusual cases, have dared to administer only conservative amounts of hormone over long periods of time. Last year Physiologists R. Deanesly and Alan Sterling Parkes of the National Institute for Medical Research at London grew tired of performing innumerable injections in their laboratory, decided that they needed a "laborsaving device." They had a hunch that if man could carry around a substantial, fairly permanent store of extra hormones, his body would absorb as large an amount as was physically possible; just as a camel gradually...
...Paradoxically its heat increased. It is now at normal temperature again. At present it is racked by tremendous disturbances and is "blowing away its atmosphere." Most logical explanation, said Dr. Baldwin, was that Gamma's compressed atmosphere expanded so rapidly that its gasses were cooled. Thus the star grew brighter and cooler at the same time...