Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ability to make two drachmas grow where one grew before seems to have sputtered out. An economist in Athens last week declared that the only new business enterprise he had heard of was a bar opened by a bartender who had quarreled with his partner...
...holdful of war surplus: one locomotive, several coaches, and six miles of track originally ordered for the siege of Sevastopol. Argentines promptly called the locomotive La Portena, proudly watched it chuff out of Buenos Aires in August 1857. In the years that followed, the six miles of track grew to 27,000-over half of it broad Russian gauge (5 ft. 6 in.) like La, Portena's. Because Britain kept her finger in the succulent Argentine railway pie, British investors eventually owned 74% of Argentina's trackage...
...Action grew almost belligerant last night at the Indoor Athletic Building, as the Varsity basketball team subdued a rugged Trinity quintet, 63 to 50, for its thirteenth victory in 18 starts...
...week's end, John McCloy had still not made up his mind. But the longer the Bank's presidency remained unfilled, the gloomier grew prospects for floating the billions in securities needed to finance world reconstruction. Private bankers, lukewarm at best, had now cooled to the whole project. The World Bank's prestige had fallen so low that some Manhattan bankers talked about getting the unissued securities stricken from New York State's "legal list," i.e., the list of securities in which savings banks may invest...
...sculpture. But above all, they learn how all these subjects are "related." The Taylor theory: "To study 12th Century sculpture without realizing the tremendous force of the religious movements of the Middle Ages would be as blind as to study a maple leaf with no realization . . . of how it grew...