Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Butterflies grow up in odd places. The cabbage butterfly, in its caterpillar state, will sometimes pupate on firewood, often emerges from its cocoon in midwinter, much to the astonishment of gentlemen warming their feet in fireplaces. The cybele will lay eggs only on violets...
...reason: "My company is up against a stone wall. It can't compete with the Bull." Durham's bull was the object of a score of lawsuits before he became the property of American Tobacco Co. in 1898. As time passed the bull seemed to grow younger, more alert. He turned his head east again, became civilized, modest, stood behind a fence. Nine years ago he went into retirement, did not reappear until last summer, when he emerged, still proud & handsome, looking for a mate...
...Navy's oarsmen spent an afternoon at Kingston, 15 miles away, watching Max Schmeling train for his heavyweight championship fight against Jack Sharkey. In the Columbia boathouse last week there was no electric light, no telephone. The crewmen went to bed early, rose with the sun, let their beards grow long, wore as few clothes as possible...
...Wife to Caesar, as in her first novel The Ellington Brat, Authoress Mellett places her characters along the Potomac's stormy northeast bank. A Washingtonian, wife of the Scripps-Howard editor of the Washington Daily News, she has seen great political and social lions grow from little cubs. The results of her bright-eyed observation she sets down in an excited, exciting style. With its high-pressure people, its journalistic plot, her rather amateurish novel somehow manages to be one of the most characteristically U. S. productions of the year...
...fact that the price of lobsters dropped from 60? per Ib. three years ago to 25? last winter. It costs a Maine lobsterman 20? per Ib. to catch a lobster. Canada's industry is government-subsidized, and its lobsters enter the U. S. duty free. Though Canadian lobsters grow as large as Maine's, immature ones are caught under a law which provides for two months of intensive fishing, then a ten-month closed season...