Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years later, a jury acquitted him of burning down his church. Meanwhile, Fundamentalist Norris' tobacco-denouncing, hallelujah-shouting following grew bigger & bigger: by 1935 he was shepherding one congregation in Detroit, another in Fort Worth, commuting between them by plane...
...Guthrie Jr. grew up in Choteau, Mont., where his father was the first high-school principal in the county. The dazzling air and blue immensity of the Rockies, the profound distances of" the Great Plain: are memorably present in his novel...
...Puritan ties grew weaker and weaker, Unitarianism appeared on the New England landscape, and the Divinity School was organized in 1816. Its constitution prescribes that "every encouragement be given to the serious, impartial, and unbiased investigation of Christian truth, and that no assent to the peculiarities of any denomination of Christians be required either of the Students or Professors or Instructors...
...brick building of the Young Friends in Philadelphia, 14 Quakers gathered for a meeting. The "sense" of that meeting-held on April 30, 1917-grew into the American Friends Service Committee, which for millions of the world's sufferers has made the word "Quaker" synonymous with "help...
When the late-Heywood Broun whipped up the American Newspaper Guild in 1933, he put in a generous helping of yeast. As the Guild, a C.I.O. affiliate since 1937, grew big and 25,000-strong, its members turned out to be such passionate unionists that many a local meeting developed into a battle royal that lasted half the night. Few hairs remained unsplit, whether the issue was politics or personalities. Last week it was both...