Word: grow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eastern rivalries grow pale beside the gargantuan wars of colleges that lie behind the Rocky Mountains. California and Stanford are two giants who ravage the countryside and then clash together. Last week, before the game, Stanford had won 15 of these clashes and California 12. California rapidly scored 13 points; after the half, Simkins made a touchdown for Stanford; in the last minute Frentrup of Stanford made another. The giants had played their seventh...
...prize fighters grow old, they become decrepit; young bruisers whom they could once have walloped, beat their battered noses and knock their false teeth out of mouth. Yet, rebels against time, because they love the sound of invisible watchers in the dark or because they know that they will be unable to earn a living in some other profession, they continue to fight, in little arenas and smelly, half filled armories...
...programs are a charming and delightful offshoot which I did not contemplate. Their letters show that the mothers and grandmothers, and in some cases the fathers and grandfathers listened in at home while their children heard the concert at school. Altogether it looks as though this might grow into a gigantic awakening on the part of the Nation to music...
...WHEN I GROW RICH - Ethel Sidgwick - Harpers...
...super-house" of When I Grow Rich is a glorified boarding house in Bloomsbury run by eight young, and mostly struggling, artists, doctors, and unclassified. Each lays claim to one charm or another, but queen of them all is Auburn whose frankness, not to mention beauty, intensely endears her to at least two of the boarders - one of them idle-rich, and pathetically eager to be of small services; the other poor, but Scotch and ambitious. The triangle is pulled awry by the affairs of the house - one boarder blackballs another to conceal a theft and a clandestine love affair...