Word: growed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nothing of the crew whom Captain Nobile has abandoned on the Polar ice. As the years pass General Nobile will grow so weary of explaining why he was the first to leave his ship. Those explanations will be sufficient punishment...
...active in many another social service body in and about Manhattan. Tireless, vivid, she mounted many a platform in her last years, a majestic old gentlewoman in the kind of hats Queen Victoria liked, voicing the kind of ideas with which Queen Victoria's great-great-grandchildren will grow...
...fleet, brought the flagship Aquitania through a bitter gale, "one of the worst ever," on his last westward passage. A graduate of the wind-jammers, he has crossed the North Atlantic 726 times, covered 2,323,200 nautical miles. Much-respected, much-loved, burly Capt. Sir James retires to grow cabbages...
...discussed the platform more than their man. Odds rose to 9 to i on the Smith nomination. Thomas ("Silver Tongue") Hickey onetime newsboy "from the sidewalks of San Francisco" prepared his speech to second the Smith nomination. "There are two kinds of big men," said Mr. Hickey. "Those who grow and those who just swell. Well, Al's growing all the time...
...latter he yielded, turning himself for a time into Mr. Hyde, with a sly wink at his own cleverness. He did not, indeed, want to be found out, but had not supposed that he was doing anything very bad until at last he allowed the evil habit to grow so strong that he could not resist it, and he was a permanent Hyde...