Word: grew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word such classics as H. W. Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage and A Dictionary of American English, edited by Sir William Craigie (see MILESTONES) and James Hulbert. In all, Bergen piled up 108 looseleaf notebooks in his children's playroom. As the project grew, he began to have nightmares about a fire destroying his files. "If the house caught fire while I was out," he chuckles, "my wife was instructed to forget the kids and start throwing the books out the window." Despite all his research, Evans willingly admits that the final defense...
...test a year ago, quietly "quit" the Press last January to enter the police academy and begin a life of "applied schizophrenia." In re peated close calls, he managed to avoid acquaintances on the street, at a theater, in a restaurant. Off duty, he labored over a diary that grew to 600 type written pages. He graduated in the top ten (of 92) from the three-month course for rookies. Then, as he wrote last week in the lead of "Badge 384." his front-page series: "I was the law in the rawest, meanest, toughest police district in Cleveland...
...Freuchen and his friend Knud Rasmussen crossed the north Greenland icecap. Childlike in his daring, steel-girded in his endurance, he once (1923) hammered off the frozen toes of his left foot, hopped actively on a peg leg after a subsequent amputation. With his face also frozen, Freuchen grew a full red beard, only shaved briefly to be less recognizable when he joined the wartime resistance in Nazi-held Denmark. In 1945 he settled in Manhattan as U.N. correspondent for Copenhagen's Politiken, but he was ever anxious to head back to the Arctic. With explorer friends Sir Hubert...
...refused to elaborate on his telepathic talk with the saucermen. "It is wiser not to divulge it. The authorities know all the details." Guimaraes' TV lecture left many viewers convinced that he had been in his cups rather than in a saucer. But as the hoots grew louder, friends and colleagues joined ranks around the wiry, balding professor, father of four, community pillar, model of rectitude. Summarized his faculty dean: "Everyone is entitled to his own convictions, but nobody can make me believe Guimaraes is a liar or insane...
...equities (all assets minus all liabilities) rose by $8 billion to an all-time high of $157.3 billion. In every single category, farmers increased their net worth. Livestock values rose almost 5%, machinery 3%, household goods more than 4%. Even farmers' cash deposits, bond holdings and other investments grew bigger, in some categories as little as 0.6%, in others as much as 6%. The biggest gain was in the farmer's biggest asset: his land, whose value last year jumped $6.8 billion to a record $109.5 billion...