Word: growed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stockmarket, which has lately been the band ahead of the Business Prosperity Parade, a purely technical reaction has occurred. Meanwhile, industrial and commercial news continues to grow more favorable. Commodity prices at wholesale are experiencing a sharp rise. Gasoline is being marked up. The steel industry is operating at about 85% capacity, while other metallic industries are doing well. Automobile companies, despite keen competition, anticipate good business this coming year. Except for a handful of roads, among them the St. Paul, the railroad outlook is singularly good. Moreover, the absence of sensation in business at present is a sign...
...clock.--Moon will make its first indentation on the sun's rim. This nick will grow quite speedily as the moon moves between the earth...
...worst thing that can happen to anybody is to grow up. Growing old is only part of it; if you don't grow up, how can you grow old? People start by making believe they are grown up and then, the first thing they know, they are. The look at their faces, which have gotten lined or baggy or twisted with pretending to be grown up, and they say "That is I." Sometimes they say "That is me"; then there is still hope for them. A. A. Milne, who wrote this book, is not like these people...
...music which had made him so famous was, for him, the music of yesterday. Yet there were not a few in the great assemblage who love still the loveliness he has forsworn; and, though the members of the Philharmonic Orchestra seemed to weary of all his impetuous antics, to grow listless in sounding their horns and strings, these people applauded long the music of the old Stravinsky, by the new Stravinsky...
...newspaper's environment is in the public which reads it. It goes without saying that the quality of a newspaper represents the quality of its readers. A great newspaper has often been known to scream in the headlines and grow purple in its editorials about an oil scandal, a Wall Street bomb, a colossal trust or other heinous calumnies. A fortnight ago, the New York Evening Bulletin, moron's caviar, indulged in journalistic bathos...