Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unmitigated graft and corruption in Indiana . . . Others will be confirmed in their dislike and mistrust of politics and politicians, and many friends and foes of Ike will view with alarm or cynicism (real or feigned) the fact that Craig is Ike's boy. However, Indiana, the state Lincoln grew up in, undoubtedly molded him as much as any environment could mold him. Politics are undoubtedly played pretty much the same as they were played in Lincoln's time-in Springfield, III., or in Washington, D.C. . . . "Taken all told," in the words of Huck Finn...
...Hoodlums. Riot was just a breath away when someone touched off a tear-gas bomb. Blinded, and choking on the thick smoke, spectators groped their way out of the Forum. Outside, the mob grew. Some 8,000 strong, it flowed down St. Catherine Street, blocked traffic and cheered when a truckload of kids shouted "Vive le Rocket!" Soon the hoodlums took over. Rocks arched through the yellow haze of street lights and store windows shattered. Jewelry shops were looted. Streetcars took a pasting. It was 2:30 a.m. before the Montreal cops had the city back under control...
Religion lost its dominant position on the key corner of the Square in 1833, when the old meeting house was razed and Dane Law College, the first Harvard Law School, appeared on its foundations. The law era lasted some sixty years, but as the University grew in wealth, the bursars office inevitably took precedence. Lehman Hall now almost obscures a small, grey tombstone, marking the site of the old meeting house, and the rattle of the subway drowns any echo of the days when Puritan preachers poured out fire and brimstone in the Square...
Unseen Magic. Dr. Fleming scraped off some of the mold with a loop of platinum wire and grew the stuff by itself. In the fluid in which it multiplied was a something that killed several kinds of microbes. The mold was a variety of penicillium, and Fleming called the unseen but magical substance penicillin. He wrote about it in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology. One man paid close heed: Chemist Harold Raistrick extracted a crude form of penicillin, but was advised by senior doctors that it had no future as a medicine for humans-it was too unstable. Fleming...
...election controversy grew out of charges made last Sunday that some 40 voting members of the HYRC had not paid their dues but still voted in the recent elections of club officers...