Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year before the band obtained the huge base drum now wheeled in at half-time during games. As a present to the grow-organization, the Associated Harvard Clubs presented it at a meeting in Philadelphia in 1928. According to present values the drum is worth between eight and ten thousand dollars...
...group which at times grow to nine instrumentalists alternated with Barbara Leacock, Wellesley '51, torch singer, who performed only with piano this time...
...long run even the farmers might rebel against the increasing controls of support programs. They can catch a glimpse of their future in the proposed new potato support program. The more openhanded the Government becomes, the more strictly it may have to control what farmers grow right down to the bushel...
...rendering of Don Quixote, Putnam says: "I have striven to avoid . . . an antiquated style and vocabulary and . . . any modernism that would . . . savor of flippancy." He is diffident about the result ("though I think I do these translations better as I grow older"), but need not be: it is one of the triumphs of the translator's trade...
Bouquet. In Walhalla, S.C., Etta Jackson won a suspended sentence after explaining to the court that the twelve half-gallon jugs of bootleg whisky dug up in her garden were placed there only to make the flowers grow better...