Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...appointed minister to England. The extent of English hostility to the North stunned him; an army was sent to Canada; Gladstone proudly put $10,000 in Confederate bonds; an invasion from Canada was momentarily expected; and Adams was in such despair that, even as an old man, he grew pale when he thought of that time...
Good Neighbor or not, Secretary Hull seemed to have resigned himself to the necessity of speaking bluntly to recalcitrants. Last week he had Ambassador Grew in Tokyo strongly protest Japan's shooting down of a Chinese-U. S. airliner in China...
Fifteen of the 156: Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, Elsie Dinsmore, Uncle Remus, Penrod, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa, The Story of a Bad Boy, Little Lord Fontleroy, Goops and How to Be Them, The Last of the Mohicans, Freckles, Tarzan of the Apes, Pollyanna, Beautiful...
...have been Freckles, which since publication in 1904 has sold over 2,000,000 copies, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), with total all-time sales of 1,500,000 copies. At least five others have sold over a million: Pollyanna, Five Little Peppers and How They Grew, Beautiful Joe, The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Huckleberry Finn...
...Deal had gagged Boake Carter, whose crusty comments have had a decidedly agin-the-government tang. But General Foods President Colby M. Chester is stanchly anti-New Deal. Last week, when it was announced that Boake Carter would say his last General Foods cheerio August 26, the rumors grew louder. Official reason for failure to renew the contract: The change from Daylight Saving Time would bring the broadcasts to western radios at 4:30 p. m., too early an hour for most listeners, and better time is not available on any nationwide network...