Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in a Kiplingesque Indian hill station 53 years ago, he first grew interested in aviation while on leave from his regiment, the Gurkha Rifles, in 1911. He spent his whole leave learning to fly, finally earned the Royal Aero Club's Certificate...
Perhaps "Hollywood Cavalcade," as its title implies, is meant to tell the evolution of the movie industry from a puny stream to a raging torrent. But as the film works out, it tells of a rollicking freshet that grew into a sprawling, limpid river. To apostles of "progress" in the movie industry, this picture is indeed discouraging, for as it progresses from its first sequences of riotous cinematic primitivism it steadily loses audience interest...
...cotton that had once been called the king of a kingless country, and which like a dethroned monarch of agriculture forever conspired to rule again grew in its inexhaustible luxuriance-over the eight States south of the Ohio and the James; east of the shallow, wandering Brazos that flows from dusty New Mexico to the grey waters of the Gulf near Galveston Bay. In little patches hanging on the hillsides of Tennessee; in the red soil of Georgia; in big plantations along the Black Warrior and Coosa in Alabama, in poverty-stricken tenant farms and rundown sharecropping holdings, in syndicate...
Virtually all editorial comment favored France and Britain: none favored Germany. Criticism of British censorship grew stronger. Support of President Roosevelt's policies declined on all fronts: in domestic affairs from 64% to 55%, from 76% to 72% in foreign relations...
...Nikolaev in the Russian Ukraine. In 1917 he was studying at the Polytechnic Institute in Petrograd, became successively a civil servant under Kerensky, a painter of party posters under Lenin. Five years later, while clerking in his brother's delicatessen shop in Paris, he drifted into designing, soon grew successful in the field of elegant advertisement...