Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Surprise, Neb., Rufus Woods saw his first circus there. When he grew to 5 ft. 8 in., 210 lb., 59 years, he was well-known in the State of Washington as editor and publisher of the Wenatchee World. Last week the nation became aware of Mr. Woods, through widely published pictures, as the editor who turned clown...
...grew older, Owney became irritable and testy. The Post Office Department frowned on him. But in spite of official displeasure Owney's friends, the clerks, kept him traveling. Owney came to the end of his journeys in Toledo. He bit a post-office clerk, and on June 12, 1897, he was shot. But such was Owney's fame that he was stuffed and placed in a glass case in the Smithsonian Institution. For 40 years Owney sat in his niche in the Smithsonian, awaiting a successor. It is now fairly certain there will never be another quite like...
...even knocked down booed the decision. But Negro Joe Louis, 23, made $75,000 and successfully if not brilliantly defended the heavyweight championship of the world which he won two months ago by knocking out James J Braddock (TIME, July 5). And Thomas George Paul John Farr, 23, who grew up as a colliery boy in Wales, who once was a "booth fighter" earning five shillings a week boxing with yokels at country fairs, earned $50,000 in an evening...
...their interests when the firm moved to New York and Paris. Young Fleishhacker rose speedily to the top, but not solely because he married the boss's daughter. Banker Fleishhacker has a cold, keen brain perfectly adapted to his job. In 1932, after various other mergers, the bank grew into the present Anglo California National Bank, fourth largest in California (total assets: $239,500,000), with Herbert Fleishhacker president, his quieter, older brother, Mortimer, chairman. Generally reputed to be heavy but highly successful investors, the Brothers Fleishhacker have interests in shipping, agriculture, oil, paper, mining, hotels, retail stores, cement...
While Claude has settled down to live out her life on a farm, the children she grew up with have gone much further afield. All her sisters have married, all of them much better than Claude. Of the Gerfaut boys, Mark has become an imminently famous writer, Ivan an explorer; Philippe, her special chum, a sculptor. Three months after she married Ernest the World War took him, deposited him in a German prison camp for four years. The Russian Revolution swept away her dowry savings, invested in Russian bonds. When peace came and Ernest was released, things looked brighter; then...