Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 48 hours Adolf Hitler grew more and more excited about the "insult to German honor" which he saw in the coldness of Britain and France to all schemes for doing anything about the dent in the Leipzig. He was also emboldened by the daily bad news, from Russia, bitterest foe of Germany (see p. 18). Telling old von Neurath not to stir out of Berlin, Herr Hitler rasped orders which sent flashing off to London this stiff announcement: "The situation caused by the repeated attacks of the Reds in Spain on German warships does not allow the absence...
Goal was San Francisco, but fog shut in, the flyers grew exhausted, and finally they turned back from Eugene, Ore., landed at Pearson Field, the Army's air base at Vancouver, Wash. Bewhiskered, red-eyed and tottery, they stumbled from their plane, having covered about 5,288 miles in 63 hr., 17 min.-second longest flight in history* and one of the most important in charting an uncharted airway. The trio dragged themselves to the home of Brigadier General George C. Marshall, field commandant, drank his cognac, gobbled his breakfast, used his razor, then fell into his beds while...
...contrast with similar presses of the past, such as the Black Sun Press conducted in Paris by the late Henry Grew ("Harry") Crosby, New Directions professes a social purpose. Editor Laughlin believes with I. A. Richards and most other competent critics that language, like a swimming pool, needs to be constantly renewed and purified for the pleasure and health of those who use it. If stagnant associations and clichés can be broken up in people's minds they will be more imaginative and receptive to ideas of social change. Says Editor Laughlin: "It is the word worker...
...scientists rightly took as a sign that the monster was about to bloom at last. By last week the spadix, a yellow central spike, was 6 ft. 1½ in. long and thick as a telephone pole at its base. In, the final 24 hr. of its rise it grew one inch. The whole plant was 8 ft. 5 in. tall...
...property offered, the fractions decreasing as bidders express willingness to accept less & less of the property for the fixed tax sum sought. Usually the fractions go no smaller than one-eighth or one-sixteenth, but at one day's sales in Miami last week the bidding grew so hot that prices spiraled dizzily downward to thousandths, millionths, billionths. then trillionths, finally quadrillionths. Record was set by a man who paid $115.85 for a certificate representing a claim to 1/100 of 1/100 of 1/1,000,000,000,000,000 (quadrillionth) of a small Miami lot. He nosed out another buyer...