Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. William Temple, does not let grass grow under his feet. His very first speech after his enthronement was a call to a unified Christendom ("The world has been much more conscious of the Church's divisions than of its unity in the fundamental principles of the Gospel. This is our fault and we ought to be bitterly ashamed of it."); a ringing redefinition of democracy ("The test of democracy is not whether the majority prevails but whether the minority is tolerated."); and a plea for social reform, culminating in a proposal that all corporations should...
...anxious Britain and the rousing U.S., this confidence was heartening. If Russian confidence was justified, victory might be in sight. If not, the long night of war might grow darker and colder than ever...
...pretty, American musicomedy star with a headful of russet red curls, Miss Hayworth meets Dresser on the Chautauqua circuit, irks him to Manhattan, sings his songs, falls in & out of love with him to the final fadeout. Director Cummings never lets these familiar tactics grow tiresome. Blessed with some truly imaginative and exciting sets, some of the best musical arrangements of this or any other season, a powderbox-full of new dance routines, inspired costuming, he manages to make the gaslight era seem just around a very inviting corner...
...puzzled the world when it was first announced, it is gradually becoming clear that the acceleration is an insidious attempt to snare Mr. Right before he goes marching off to the South Seas. College girls have long suffered from the competition of working girls, who don't have to grow old while they wait for a diploma. If they had to hang around Cambridge for one or two years after the accelerated Harvard man graduated, the case would be nearly hopeless. The obvious solution was this feebly disguised attempt to race the draft board...
...duration." Its circulation down to around 175,000 (25,000 below its advertising guarantee), its advertising off 46% from last year (which was off more than 50% from 1935), the onetime money-making muscle magazine, in spite of recently changing its name to Beauty & Health, had seen its losses grow to around $6,000 a month...