Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sale was held on the fifth floor, but elevators did not stop there. To reach the scene of battle customers had to take slow escalators or ride elevators to the fourth or sixth floor and go on foot from there. When the crowds grew too thick, Gimbels turned the escalators...
...kraals the Negroes grew lean and hungry. Their cattle grew lean and died. The cattle price for wives (lobola) dropped steadily' as the herds diminished. Many Negroes walked hundreds of miles to the towns for food, but there, too, the white folks were standing all night outside food stores...
...country home with a gigantic studio, a gallery open to the public, and a niche where the old Signer could relax on a red silk couch while Mary read to him. In his black scull cap and snowy beard, Watts looked more & more like a Titian portrait. As he grew old, moral philosophy became his chief interest. In the last years of his life he would pause in the garden as he passed the terra cotta sundial given him by his wife, to look at his own motto upon it: "The Utmost for the Highest." "That is the best thing...
...file of the Daily News, intending to write a centenary leader for last week. He soon became convinced that 1846, the paper's first year, was, for England, as Bernard DeVoto had found it to be for the U.S., a "Year of Decision." The article grew into a forthcoming book (Roaring Century...
First, there was a delicate operation to transplant the ovaries of female embryos into grown-up female mice. The embryo ovaries grew and developed. When the host-mothers were mated, the grafted ovaries produced healthy young which bore no genetic resemblance to the host-mothers. This process might be repeated indefinitely, said Dr. Russell, producing mice with any given number of unborn female ancestors...