Word: growed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...become a journalist. His father, Max Ways Sr., city editor of the Baltimore Herald (he gave H. L. Mencken his first reporting job), had advised against it. Said he, with a newsman's directness: "I don't want to influence your decision, but if you ever grow up to be a newspaperman I'll strangle you with my bare hands...
...justice, would sacrifice his tax exemption and much more to see U.N. grow strong enough to keep the peace. He believes passionately, however, that the infant U.N. must learn to crawl before it can stand up to the great nations whose veto almost nullifies U.N.'s peace-loving powers. Learning to crawl toward peace will be a slow process, Lie says: "This task, to make life richer for ordinary human beings everywhere, must occupy us throughout our lifetimes, and it will occupy those who follow us in time to come...
...carry on the work, put Dr. Coady at the head of it. The Dominion Government picked Dr. Coady to organize the badly exploited Maritime fishermen, some of whom got as little as $75 a year in the hungry '30s. He started the United Maritime Fishermen, saw it grow into the world's largest producer of lobsters...
...road is not yet open. We are not yet ready for organic or constitutional union. But there can be a process of assimilation, of growing alike. . . . My longing is not yet that we should be united with other churches in this country, but that we should grow to full communion with them. . . . Full communion between churches means not that they are identical in all ways, but that there is no barrier to exchange of their ministers and ministries. Every church's ministry is effective as a means by which the life of Christ reaches His people. Every church...
...possible yet nor desirable that any church should merge its identity in a newly constituted union. What I desire is that I should be able freely to enter their churches and they mine in the sacrament of the Lord, that His life may freely circulate between us. Cannot we grow to full communion with each other before we start to write a constitution? Have we the wisdom, the humility, the love and the spirit of Christ sufficient for such a venture...