Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ewan stayed on the canal that night, the next day and the next night. He was. wrapped in blankets and rubber sheeting. His voice turned hoarse.The police grinned but did not interfere. Crowds grew bigger & bigger. Ruth stayed on the dock, guarding a supply of apples and cigarettes, and watching Ewan's fitful slumbers...
Mexicans took it hard. They protested when workmen dragged Cuauhtémoc from his perch, moved in on the Statue of Columbus (see cut). Their resentment grew when they learned that the Paseo would have a two-foot strip down the middle, planted to nopal and cactus. "These are the only places where pedestrians may now take refuge," screamed El Universal, "and they fill it with cactus...
...moved into a handsome ten-room mansion in Clarksburg, puttered with a valuable collection of jade in his off-hours and tended two hutches of black & white squirrels. The two Johnson girls grew up and moved away...
...college in 1925, he started a bilingual Chinese-English weekly in Honolulu that eventually grew into Tongg Publishing Co.*It earned him the venture capital that made him a big operator in the huts. His brother Richard Choy Tongg is his inseparable companion in all his promotions...
...London's Robert Benson, Lonsdale & Co. Ltd. and Hambros Bank., Pittsburgh's Mellons, ex-Ambassador to Japan Joseph C. Grew, Transamerica Corp., Atlas Corp. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...