Word: grew
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Jean Martin Charcot in 1867 a son was born who was christened Jean-Baptiste-Etienne-Auguste. The boy grew up without thought of any other vocation than his father's, in which he quickly showed marked ability. In 1896. after practicing medicine for only six years, he became head of the clinics at the University of Paris. This was unheard of in a country which venerates age in scholarship and government. Dr. Charcot regretted that his father had not lived to see this honor...
...Ayer's booklets grew out of a regular house advertisement which lamented the passing of the personal relationship of horse & buggy days between manufacturer and customer, suggested that it might be restored, in part at least, by the proper type of corporate copy. Good basis for N. W. Ayer's reasoning existed in the fact that the firm has handled the most successful institutional campaign ever run in the U. S., that of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. So well has this campaign worked that by now most people tend to differentiate between A. T. & T.. the Institution...
...tedious romance of Cradle of Life deals with an aristocratic fachook who grew up in one of these peasant households, escaped it only to find that its ties were too strong to be broken. Learning to love his pathetic, awkward foster mother, Rudo Stanka suffered agony each time a new waif was brought to the poverty-ridden hut to die. He did not solve the mystery of his birth until he had been whisked away to a castle, educated. Then he discovered that he was the son of Rudolf, the brilliant, impetuous heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary...
...Grew dangerous when they glimpsed those slender boats...
...until he was suspended, shipped on a freighter, worked on newspapers, married the beautiful, domineering only daughter of a well-to-do family. With her he went to Paris, lived a life of futile anxiety until, under the pressure of conflicts and suspicions that are not clearly described, he grew increasingly morbid, tormented his wife with his nervousness. Meanwhile his mother had died, his talented brother had gone through a cycle of bitter conflicts and his father, old Dr. Chastain, had prospered in Wilmington without making an adjustment with his environment. Charles returned to the U. S., recovered his sanity...