Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grow another day. . . . Which course...
...Freshmen are letting their hair grow" was the consensus of the barbershopmen of the Square when interviewed yesterday...
...said one man, a trimmer of Harvard heads for 20 years. "About seven years ago the boys began to wear their hair for comfort instead of looks. But the girls are beginning to put the pressure on the crew cuts now. The boys who do let their hair grow have it cut only about once a month...
Forty-eight now, Charles Edison has often said that he was born with two strikes called. The late (1931), great Thomas Alva Edison was a genius, but a genius can be a hard father to grow up with. Gifted with none of his father's inventive fire, blessed with a great appreciation for the important trivia of living, young Charles Edison spread his share of wild oats around Llewellyn Park, N. J., where the family reigned in feudal quietude. Not until he had labored through Massachusetts Institute of Technology and settled down in the business end of the loosely...
...stripe suit, only a slight trembling in his hands showing his nervousness. When he went to work as a Metropolitan office-boy at $4 a week in 1883, a single investment of $10,000 was big stuff. In his grating voice, Witness Ecker remarked: "I have seen that grow to where ten million is only in the same proportion that the $10,000 was. . . . I haven't fixed in my mind any place at which it would be unsafe to continue. . . . I believe that our policyholders are better protected now. . . . We have 100,000 separate investments. . . . The wider your...