Word: growed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bacon, dean of the Junior and Senior classes. But as a working principle it is as reasonably sure of success as a long-term system. Assistant deans may not become estranged from the view point of the undergraduate in three or five years. Many of them grow, perhaps, in understanding of the student, but the appointment of younger graduates obviates any possibility of the Faculty dominating undergraduates in the connecting link between...
Conductor Kennedy was born in Albion, N. Y., but he never met another native of that countryside, born 27 years before, with whose works he was to become so closely associated?the late George M. Pullman. The smile on his long, gentle face will grow shy if you ask him to tell about all the bishops, actresses, pugilists, governors, bankers and U. S. Presidents (all since Grover Cleveland's first term) that he has conducted and known. Off duty he lives in a small house under old elms at Rochester, N. Y. One son is a plumber; another a Baltimore...
...even in yours, kind reader. Influenced by the last feeble, thwarting repercussions of the romatic movement they forgot their classic heritage; they forgot even to be funny; and they did the Black Bottom! I did not let my less critical roommate see my tears. He too, some day, will grow up and learn that we are but shadows in a shadow land, that even, even the clowns of today are. . . . . well, must...
However loud the popular cry may grow against the difficulty and affection of speaking corectly, however much "Liberty" may protest against the refusal of dictionary makers to substitute the easy idiom of the masses for the artificial language of scholarship, the essentials of good speech in a language as completely crystallized as English must remain the same. The efforts of the language reformers to force doubtful or incorrect expressions into recognized good usage can have but one result--to subvert good usage itself...
...people whose hearts go out to anything on a small scale. Perhaps they will sympathize with Otto and his little scheme for improving his vocabulary and pleasing the public. It is a worthy enterprise. Presided over by the diminutive favorite and his genial Boss, it--well, it otto grow...