Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt had looked at his twin objectives, Recovery and Reform, and changed his mind about which of them was underprivileged. For many months he had lavished his care on Reform believing that Recovery, with all the advantages he had planned for it, must inevitably grow. But seeing it still lagging after nearly two years' time he realized that the advantages given Recovery by its nurse, the Government, were not enough. He must after all rely on its parent, Business, to look after it. Early this winter Donald Richberg and the President's chief advisors were given...
Children learn the word "no" early, use it more & more frequently as they grow older. Just as rapid is the rise in the number of questions they ask. The number of commands issued, on the other hand, reaches a peak at the age of 4, declines slowly thereafter. Girls show a faster general rate of development than boys. They ask more questions, issue more commands, say more "noes," do more gossiping. Boys surpass them only in fondness for meaningless words, babblings, gurglings, imitations of animals...
...great assistance but his legs, after twelve years of professional hockey, are weakening. A new defenseman, Alex Levinsky, one of the two Jewish players in big-league hockey, joined the team three weeks ago to bolster the defense but the Black Hawks are still shaky when their forwards grow tired. Manager Tommy Gorman who helped them win the Stanley Cup last year has been replaced by Clem Loughlin. Chicago hockey crowds, impatient because the team has done most of its winning away from its home arena, have lately taken to tossing dead fish down from the gallery...
...actor-assassin, fresh from the Presidential box at Ford's Theatre, went to him in disguise under a false name, played his part so well that the country doctor never suspected his identity. Not until he heard the circumstances of Lincoln's death did Dr. Mudd grow suspicious, notify the authorities. For this service he was arrested as a conspirator. The whole land cried for quick, blind revenge. Booth might or might not have burned in the barn below Fredericksburg, Va. but Dr. Mudd and seven other persons accused of aiding the assassin were in jail. Hauled before...
...Judge Eugene 0. Sykes as an uncrowned commissioner walking beneath the stately elms that grow along the sidewalks of his native city, Aberdeen, trying to influence the voters in his own precinct against me, would have exhibited that measure of effectiveness only that is so often blurred by the tears that laughter brings...