Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charges of graft involving Schmitz, Boss Abe Reuf, the Southern Pacific Co.'s subsidiary United Railways (precursor of the Market St. Railway) grew so loud that even tolerant San Franciscans were aroused. The only reason they did not act immediately was because of a louder noise. The earth moved. The city tumbled down in dust and fire. When San Franciscans, recovering from the earthquake, found time, they clapped Reuf in jail...
...start he gave it, Pressed Steel coasted onward & upward through 30 years of prosperity, during which stockholders drew $38 million in dividends. Over the years Pressed Steel grew staid and conservative, floundered badly in the Big Depression, went bankrupt in 1933, barely survived a bitter reorganization battle, still operated at a loss...
...Adelaide grew up in Victorian London. Like most Victorian storybook heroines, she lived in a nice house, wore a merino dress and behaved like a skittish filly. It was Papa's idea that she should take drawing lessons. One afternoon her drawing master, Mr. Lambert, up and kissed her. What could Adelaide do? Mr. Lambert was poor and he drank; Papa declared that of course she couldn't marry him. She married him anyhow, and went to live in his dingy flat in an alley known as Britannia Mews. Thus it all began...
...vehemently denied any connection with dacoity. Aung San (whose thousands of turbulent followers like to call themselves the "Irish of the Far East") had once collaborated with the Japanese and later, when the war's tide was turning, went over to the Allies. As the hope of independence grew in neighboring India, Aung San's demands for Burmese freedom have become more threatening. With Sir Henry Knight in Rangoon, however, Aung San might think twice before acting. In India 15 years ago, Knight had crushed a local civil-disobedience campaign by summarily executing six of its leaders. *Robbery...
From that day, Relativity was the basic law of the universe. Einstein's photons, too, grew into the head-splitting Quantum Mechanics, which teaches that all matter is nothing but waves, crossing and interacting! Little by little, both theories have worked their way into nearly all branches of science...