Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House chamber was jammed. Representatives were in the rear, then the Senators, the diplomatic corps, the Cabinet (eight present). In the gallery, Bess Truman, in dark coat and brown furs, had a front-row seat. Among the Democratic Representatives, a little girl grew bored with history and squirmed on her father...
Permit me, however, to elucidate one point which you mentioned in passing. . . . I believe that this point is the sorest spot, the most serious problem confronting the Greece of today. I quote: "The old ability to make two drachmas grow where one grew before seems to have sputtered out." Right; the lack of individual enterprise-or rather, the complete reluctance to indulge in it . . . is the most perplexing reality in Greece's present national life. It is also the most important single factor in that country's current stagnation. No reconstruction, no rehabilitation, not even a simple personal...
Social Sciences 11a and 11b. History of Far Eastern Civilization (fall, and spring terms). Associate Professors Reischauer and Fairbank. "To give the non-specialists an understanding of the great civilization which grew up in Ancient China...
...present program grew out of the University report on "General Education in a Free Society," which was published in 1945. The first General Education courses were given in the fall of 1946, under the direction of Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government and chairman of the Committee on General Education...
Masters of Mayhem. Bab Gilbert grew up in that peculiarly Victorian period which saw the rise of the limerick, the nonsense-rhyme, the deadpan fantasy, the whimsical fairytale, the gay and dexterous verse-strummings on themes of mayhem, decapitation, kidnaping, cannibalism-an era that began with Thackeray, Edward Lear, Lewis Carroll and Gilbert himself, and was carried on into the 20th Century by James Barrie, G. K. Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc and Evelyn Waugh...