Word: grow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...student chaplains, have devoted their time and energy to bring to the individual student the true, vital significance of the Christian way of life. Their work, by the very nature of it, has been slow and gradual, but is having a deep effect which can not help but grow...
...just out of school, she went to work as office girl, errand girl, handy girl. Alert, energetic, intelligent she kept herself on the go. It was "Mary!" here and "Mary!" there, and Mary went everywhere. She saw other girls get dowdy at their stagnating office work. She saw men grow seedy and baldheaded, take to spectacles and paper cuffs to keep their semiweekly shirt sleeves clean. She herself kept trim and cheerful. In 1919 the gas company workers decided they wanted to strike. Mary talked to them like a mother and also like a "dutch uncle." They kept on working...
...Leary's cow kicked over the lantern and his factory was a mass of embers, McCormick turned to his beautiful young wife and asked if he should rebuild or retire. Nettie Fowler McCormick replied: "Build again at once. I do not want, our boy to grow up in idleness." He rebuilt, bigger than ever. Their boy was Cyrus Hall Jr., then a lad of 12. The next year he had a brother, Harold Fowler. There were other children, but these two were the only ones to engage actively in their father's vast business. And today the tradition...
...development of the Garrick Galties, which were started by some of the younger members of the Garrick Theatre Company for the purpose of parodying the plays which were then running in New York. The idea seemed to take with the theatre-going public, and the Gaities prospected and grow. Although the scope of the parody has broadened out to include American life in general, its favorite prey has remained the theatre. Skits on famous actors and actresses, like the disturbing domestic scene between Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontaine during the course of a serious drama, take-offs on popular plays...
...this spring's play, "Brown at Harvard" which is a distinctly Harvard production, and the possibilities for number and variety which the large cast offers, probably accounts for this remarkable turnout. Apparently induced by the demand for a variety of types which has been made for this play, Otto Grow was led to enter himself as one of the Dramatic Club's potential dramatists...