Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long since used to his odd ailment, Flynn grew up with the nickname "Tick Tock." He did not think there was anything particularly unusual about it until he read of another case. Flynn served in the Navy during the war, and Navy doctors suggested no cure...
Said Cranston Williams, general manager of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association: "Journalism has grown, as the professions of law and medicine grew. It is now a full-fledged profession...
...besom to erase her singular track. Innocent children were her favorite fare, but once a girl child, who might have been her dinner, foiled her with bread. Fleeing from Baba-Yaga, this miraculous child strewed the forest with crumbs, each of which sprouted a tree, and the trees grew so tall and thick and fast in Baba-Yaga's path that the child outran the old witch's seven-league mortar to safety...
...precisely this joy that solemn Critic Daiches misses. Readers will certainly leave his book convinced that Stevenson, as he grew older, was more interested in problems of human relationships, less absorbed in the fantasies of pure action and adventure. But they may jib at Critic Daiches' regret that Stevenson "arrived so late at the discovery of the kind of writing in which alone real greatness lies." Real greatness is not as choosy as its critics, and Stevenson's best adventure stories share a shelf with the Iliad, the Canterbury Tales, the Arabian Nights, Romeo and Juliet, Robinson Crusoe...
Shawnessy's Eve. As little Johnny Shawnessy, born in 1839, he grew up in the cornland of central Indiana. In his teens he pored over Shakespeare and began writing a column signed "Will Westward" for a Raintree County weekly paper. He fell in love with a beautiful girl named Nell. Among his friends were Cassius P. ("Cash") Carney, a boy with business sense, and Garwood Jones, a robust, youthful politician with a shrewd eye for the girls and the main chance. Garwood Jones and Johnny Shawnessy were rivals for Nell, but Garwood would never have won out if Johnny...