Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people, and Ocean Grove expects attendance to be even better this year. So far, morning and evening crowds at Sunday auditorium services have averaged 4,000. According to Joseph A. Thoma, 39-Year-old city manager of Ocean Grove, who was born in nearby Long Branch and grew up under Ocean Grove's benign influence, the community is operating on a 100% cash basis, with funds in hand for building new jetties on the beach and completing hard-surfacing of its streets, and $35,000 per year net coming in regularly from assessments...
Last week they grew excited over a dozen cases of apricots standing innocently on the railway platform at Aleppo. Ruthlessly the gendarmes tore the cases apart and, like hens who had just done their duty on the nest, gave a chorus of self-satisfied ejaculations as they discovered not fruit, but cartridges and arms. The crates were consigned to rebellious Moslem Kurd tribesmen in northeastern Syria who have been revolting for weeks against French rule, who only day before had swooped down from the back country to pillage Christian homes and shops in Amouda near the Turkish frontier...
...When the marchers refused, 75 women, 40 men at the head of the procession were dragged off to police headquarters where their names were recorded, after which, according to police reports, they were released. Because this was the first mass demonstration on record against a Reich decree. Nazi bigwigs grew panicky. Fearing that there might be an even bigger demonstration outside the Court House while Pastor Niemöller was on the stand they discreetly postponed the trial...
...Late Majesty had sealed the names of three Egyptians whom he wished to act as Regents during the minority of the present King. A flashlight and a magnifying glass were produced to aid the speaker in officially determining that the seals were authentic, intact. As he fumbled, the Barlman grew more & more excited, Deputies and Senators shouting their advice until finally the Egyptian President declared himself too overwrought to open the envelope and it was slit by a less nervous Senator...
...sale would have taken at least 30 days. Advisory Board Chairman Sam E. Trimble, however, declared that the board had been aware of this "immediacy" since last November. Since then, said he, the Commissioners had "kept putting off and putting off" the bond offering, while the bond market, incidentally, grew weaker & weaker.' Finally the Advisory Board last month suggested that the offering be announced in the press and by letter to interested bond houses. No announcement was made, no letters sent. What happened was that six days later soft-spoken George Baum of Baum, Bernheimer arranged a meeting with...