Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, a month early, and still unconscious, Rhoda Wenger gave birth to a 4 lb., 2¼ oz. girl. As the premature baby grew, Rhoda Wenger waned: despite five transfusions of hemoglobin, her weight was down to 85 pounds. Said the despairing father, still hospitalized in Washington: "I don't know how long she can keep fighting...
...half of his 65 years, John James Audubon did not appear to be destined for anything in particular. The bastard son of a French sea captain and a Santo Domingo Creole, he grew up in France when Jean Jacques Rousseau's back-to-nature notions were the rage. Sent to America to seek his fortune (as overseer of his father's estate near Philadelphia), young Audubon looked and acted like an absentminded candidate for the horsy...
Students, faculty, and administration alike grew alive to the housing problem during the term, for the return of only a small portion of the Harvard men alwar conjured up a picture of the inevitable result of the homecoming of the rest of them. With official enrollment predictions for next fall hovering around the 5800 mark for the College alone, it was obvious to all that action was necessary...
...Henry S. Grew...
...hours tormenting himself. Old acquaintances seemed to be looking at him in a strange way-as though they wondered whether he knew what they knew. When Mark found that Corinne, who had always spent his money like water, had paid off all their debts during the war, his suspicions grew darker. He raked up a hundred and one details of Corinne's past which now suddenly seemed sinister-her peculiar childhood memories, the time she had insisted on signing her maiden name to an important bill-and then hysterically refused to admit that she had done it. And what...