Word: grow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...angel set down among men to minister to their wants as a slavey but never to be wanted for herself. Tall, strong, beautifully made, fine-skinned, middleaged, immaculate, actual Almas are "Cook" or "Nurse" in thousands of U. S. households. They go to the Scandinavian Church religiously. Their eyes grow moist easily over members of "the family...
...theory is that certain forms of diabetes, pernicious anemia and cancer are caused by germs that can grow only in the "absence of free oxygen. The corollary of this theory is that if the body tissues are made to absorb and carry enough air, the oxygen will prevent such germs developing. So Dr. Cunningham puts his patients into shut rooms where air pressure of 10 to 50 pounds a square inch more than ordinary is maintained and keeps them there for from a few hours to a month. Some patients merely spend their nights in the tank treatment rooms; others...
...Theodore, this indigent individual becomes Mr. Fortune's shadow, docile and domestic Friday to the clergyman's unstrenuous Crusoe. He idolizes Mr. Fortune in place of the grotesque wooden figure which had previously had that honor. But eventually the demands of Christian religion, slender as they were, grow irksome. Lueli dwindles and repines. He goes to the forest in off moments and bows down in the ancestral fashion to images...
...capped-and-gowned candidate at the Commencement exercises will partake more of the serious than of the lightsome. Harvard College has given of its best to these men. Whatever they had she has given them again an hundredfold. To a greater or a lesser degree they have begun to grow up. At the moment of departure there may be in the heart of the man who leaves the College doubt of his own power, even among the manifestations of trust and the symbols of early success. Conquest of this doubt and proof of power lies in a future of uncertainty...
...prospects grow sad and more drear...