Word: grew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the case reached the Supreme Court, the genie suddenly grew to enormous size. The Court held that Judge Picard was wrong, that all makeready and walking time on company property had to be paid for. Suddenly, the genie of portal-to-portal pay hovered, mountain high, not only over small Mt. Clemens Pottery, but over all industry. The oracular Court gave a hint, however, on how the monster might be lured back into the bottle. Under the legal doctrine of de minimis ("the law does not concern itself with trifles"), all small amounts of makeready time were...
...famed Philosopher William Ernest Hocking pulled his children out of them. On the sun porch of his home, in 1914, he and a Harvard colleague founded a school of their own. They and their wives taught and ran it themselves for a few years; but Shady Hill School grew too fast for them. It was then that Philosopher Hocking & Co. went looking for somebody to take over, and found a golden-haired schoolmarm named Katharine Taylor...
...able to supply much that the rest of the war-racked world needs. The U.S. can be the fountainhead of international recovery. But if other nations are barred from U.S. markets by U.S. economic nationalism, they will be driven more & more to state-controlled trading, the malignancy which grew out of totalitarianism and two world wars. From Russia it now has spread over Eastern Europe, its economic virulence taking possession of politics and morals as well. It is the disease which destroys free enterprise. Clayton is convinced that the only way to save free enterprise is to win world trade...
...knew how he had accumulated so much cotton, nor would McKennon say. But he took pride in showing the folks back in Dumas, Ark. (pop. 2,315) that he had made good. McKennon never got beyond the fourth grade, where he grew so much bigger than the other boys that his family finally took him out so he "wouldn't be a-disgracing 'em." Before he left, he won a spelling bee, a triumph as sweet then as his cotton deal was last week. Said he proudly: "I sure showed 'em where the bear...
After that, the whole performance grew progressively more unbelievable, like something conceived late at night by three unemployed radio writers...