Word: growed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from suggestion such as it sponsored by President Hopkins of Dartmouth that great reforms grow. The Dartmouth leader's views are merely an opening wedge in ultimate correction of certain evils in intercollegiate football, not in the game itself, but in the background. "Hoppy," as all Dartmouth men know him, probably hasn't reached the solution, but he will start college presidents thinking about the general problem again and someone may hit upon a practical reform platform which is feasible. "Observer" in Boston Traveler...
...believes himself on the track of such a creation. His new instrument is the percussion symphony, employing ten pianos, one mechanical piano, xylophones, airplane propeller, wind machines, electric machines, bells- but no strings, brasses, woodwinds or reeds. He wants to express America, Africa, steel. While his Slavic blue eyes grow round with vision, he will assure the interviewer that to him a good Ford engine seems more beautiful than a mediocre painting...
...Marshall, industrious son of Adam, grew more bushels of corn to an acre than any other man, was hailed corn monarch of the world.* Last week he was summoned from his farm near Ada, Ohio, to tell President Coolidge how he makes corn grow. Farmer Marshall's formula: good seed, fertilizer heavily applied, and a careful rate of planting...
...very well done third act, finds that the action has apparently been progressing all the time. The final curtain is a genuine surprise to anyone who has taken the play as a polite little society drama in which the heroine would eventually discover that cats who walk alone often grow weary. If Nina had returned to her diamond-in-the-rough Mr. Brett the result would be more soothing but also less realistic...
...ecclesiast spoke. "I hope," he said, "that this girl will grow into womanhood, ripe and rich, to spread her teachings and faith as beautifully as the flower promises...