Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Clemens Heller 2G, had the idea that Harvard might be able to do more than send food to Europe. He thought originally of a small group of faculty men coming to Salzburg during the festival season to talk about the United States to European students, but the idea grew as he outlined it to the International Student Service, a world organization which had been considering a plan for a rest home for European students...
...grisly news of the eucalyptus grove quickly spread through a land which had learned to expect an eye for an eye. Panicky Jews prepared to flee from Natanya. British troops grew sullen, angry, dangerous. That night, in Tel Aviv, British soldiers on foot and in armored cars lashed out in an unsoldierly demonstration. They smashed windows, beat Jews, fired Sten guns into a crowded bus. Five Jews were killed, 15 wounded. Next day, at the funeral for the five dead, mourners and police clashed again. The toll: 33 Jews injured. Said one resident of Natanya: "This cancels...
...with guns were careful to see that only a limited number of Indians were admitted to trade at one time. Then the guns disappeared, and the stockades, but still you had a more or less isolated post, with a few houses growing up around it. Then the settlement grew into a town, and a modern store developed-often on the very site of the old fortified post. Today, we don't try to limit the number of customers. Times have changed...
...Bell grew up "a dutiful child" in a respectable middle-class family of Hackensack,N.J. After taking an A.B. at the University of Michigan in 1937, he got a few minor roles on Broadway, then drifted into radio, where he was immediately typed as a criminal...
Soon hundreds of Texas children were rifling desks at home for old letters, rummaging through attics and barns. They got oldtimers to tell them stories of the old days. One San Antonio high school helped preserve an old Mexican settlement, La Villita, around which San Antonio grew. A Junior Historian in Wichita Falls, Tex. made the fattest find of all: a pioneer settler's 82-volume diary...