Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Manhattan's Kidder, Peabody & Co. this week gave parents a Christmas tip: give the kiddies investment trust shares that can "grow with the years." For gifts of $100 in mutual fund shares, Kidder, Peabody would furnish a green-edged gift certificate listing the shares purchased. The firm reminded parents such shares yield from 3½% to 6%, hinted there was no reason to limit purchases to $100: gifts up to $3,000 are exempt from gift taxes...
...thought how [my baby] would be the child of a murderer and a prostitute; but any man in the world might happen to kill someone and any woman might sell herself for money; and what mattered most of all was that he should have an easy birth and grow up strong and healthy...
Deanna testified against her second husband, 47-year-old Felix Jackson, who helped to write some of her early hits (Mad About Music, Three Smart Girls Grow Up), and produced her most recent flops (I'll Be Yours, Because of Him). She told the judge that a year after their marriage in 1945 (his fourth), Jackson "started a series of unhappy moods and a certain restlessness." She added: "About six months after that, he told me he was unhappy being a married man and preferred being single ... He left me, went to New York City, hasn't been...
...family, tending the vegetable garden, pressing oil for the lamps, learning how to pound spices. Wild animals are tame in her presence; the fawn and the doe approach her fearlessly. And, like many a daughter in Israel, she dreams of one day bearing the child who will grow up to be the King-Messiah...
...lags in income, however, there has been no alternative but to eliminate courses, discharge faculty members, and postpone plans for modernization and other improvements. Only about 15 per cent of the country's colleges and universities fell into this category last year, but if the financial crisis continues to grow, many more will join those making retrenchments...