Word: growed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invisible droplets that each human exhales as he breathes. Whole colonies of them are ejected with sputum onto sidewalks, into street cars, in hotel lobbies. They are particularly thick in tenements, barracks, orphan asylums, workhouses, penitentiaries. But most people are able to resist them, to kill them as they grow...
...with more pleasure than to any other repast, and I enjoy it more. With a slight substitution (fish-ball for egg) on Sunday. I eat the same things for breakfast and at the same hour (7.13) every day in the year, and like white wings, I never grow weary...
...granite-founded, verdant-wooded Vendee cradled the cub that was to grow into "Tiger" Clemenceau at the Chateau de 1'Aubraie, near Feole. Now on his little four-acre estate, Bels Ebats, in the Vendee, the old "Tiger" waits for Death. The world has been his province, but the Vendee is his home...
...really available would report, the Senior squad would be a strong one. There are many men who have been dropped from the Second University squad and have failed to report for class football, whose presence in the line-ups would be a distinct advantage, he said. If the squads grow, they will be sub-divided into groups according to the ability of the players, and double the scheduled number of games will be played if two complete teams can be chosen from each class squad...
President Eliot in his Inaugural Address suggested that "two kinds of men make good teachers--young men and men who never grow old." There is apparently no better method for aging a man prematurely than an over dose of modern scholarship. Professor Kirsopp Lake in his course on the Old Testament has a twofold method of instruction. He reads the King James Version of the Bible to his students so beautifully, so inspiringly, that they want to discover for themselves the beauty and the inspiration of the work. And be delivers for themselves the beauty and the inspiration...