Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acting as witnesses. Using such names as Opal Irkman or Bertha Curd, the Womacks had figured in at least 65 accidents which brought them $2,085. Most Womack claims were settled on the spot. Several netted nothing when adjusters remembered previous encounters. One who called on Mrs. Womack grew suspicious when she began to describe the wrong accident...
Since face is a matter of high importance in the Orient, the slapping of a U. S. official caused President Roosevelt to spend two hours conferring with State Department officials. U. S. Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew at Tokyo was then ordered to obtain an expression of regret from Japanese Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs Kensuke Horinouchi. This Washington officially accepted as "satisfactory," closed the case. Whether the Chinese woman identified any rapists, what happened to her or them, remained unknown to the State Department...
...revelation of the Second Coming of Christ. Though he spent nearly 30 years before his death (date of which he predicted accurately in a letter to Methodist John Wesley) in writing theological works in Latin, he had no intention of founding a church. The Church of the New Jerusalem grew up after his death. Today it has some 20,000 members throughout the world, of whom 8,000 belong to two U. S. branches...
...campaign, the National Association of Food Chains, represented by the heads of 16 large companies, sat down in May 1936 with representatives of the National Co-operative Council, an association of 51 agricultural co-operative groups with a membership of 1,500,000 farmers. Out of the meeting grew several policies, one of which was an agreement by the chain stores to stage special sales campaigns whenever the farmers were stuck with a bona fide surplus of any crop...
...viscount (TIME, Jan. 10). About a month ago Nufneld registered privately in high Fleet Street quarters a mild protest at the habit English reporters had of describing him as plain and hearty "Bill" Morris, the bucolic bicycle maker of Oxford who cleverly expanded into building Morris cars and grew so rich in 25 years that to Oxford University alone he has given $17,700,000 (TIME...