Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...found trouble balancing the books, and debated asking for federal aid, a problem which has come up again more recently. The tutorial system was re-examined and intensified, and the House were fruitful topics for sustained interest in trivial problems, notably the subject of inter-House dining. House sports grew in organization, participation, and earnestness, and began to suggest an alternative to the looming professionalism of big-time football. Meanwhile, football relations with Princeton were renewed...
...betrays its origins. A large group of "expense account" businessmen and admen are beating at the gates. Many have the proper backgrounds, went to school at Eton and Oxford, served in the Guards or other "good" regiments. But. laments one adman who makes $56,000 a year: "People I grew up with, who have gone into civil service or banking, are members of the Athenaeum or Reform Club by now. I can't get in. I've tried and failed. Most of us have. It's because we have the use of so much money. Having capital...
...were shipped out to forced labor, but hundreds of thousands of desperate peasants poured in. The population leaped from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000. By 1956, the baffled Reds gave up trying to reduce Shanghai. Factories were restored, new industries developed. Satellite towns housing 200,000 workers grew up on the city's expanding outskirts...
Back in New Brunswick, where he grew up, Britain's peppery Lord Beaverbrook put up at Fredericton's Lord Beaverbrook Hotel, spent hours right next door in the city's Lord Beaverbrook Art Gallery, one of his many gifts to the province. Facing the local press on the eve of his 80th birthday, Journalist Beaverbrook parried questions with professional skill, along the way paid bittersweet tribute to a transatlantic competitor. Asked by a newshound what he regards as his greatest achievement in publishing, His Lordship shot back: "Reading the 145 pages of the New York Times Sunday...
...deposits grew, Lewis helped his bank find better ways to put the money to use. Bankers give him much of the credit for a new New York State banking law passed in 1950 that enabled savings banks to invest part of their assets in stocks. He was the first president of New York's Institutional Investors Mutual Fund, an open-end stock fund for mutual savings banks that now has assets of $46 million. With it all, he was an easy man to work for: friendly, outgoing, a delegator of responsibility who enjoyed calling his staff "my family." Says...