Word: growing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coming Home. With responsibility thrust upon them, a number of names of growing importance emerged from the G.O.P. Among them were Colorado's Eugene Millikin, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; New York's Ives and Connecticut's Raymond Baldwin, who had also forced the hierarchy into paying attention to freshmen. One man who continued to grow in political stature was Arthur Vandenberg. One man who had learned something was the Senate's boss in domestic matters, Bob Taft. He had learned that warm human beings are not as easy to manipulate as cold figures...
According to a legend told by Syria's Faris el Khoury, an Arab counts only happy days in reckoning his age. On that basis, Arabs did not grow much older in the 18-day General Assembly session...
Cabinet ministers visiting Yen's headquarters in the dusty village of Tinghsien found that the people had learned not only to read, but to keep their village clean, grow bigger & better crops. Yen's rule: "While we aim to create a new society, we must not forget we are doing it with an old society...
...really a short form of adding, the day a whole class cooperates to write a poem which expresses the fresh new beauty of a child's world, you know why teaching holds people. . . . All farmers and even tenders of city ivy pots know the fascination of watching things grow. But for the teacher it is not things-it's people...
...soon as they clear out," he asserted, "there will be an immediate feeling of intense hostility towards them," but he indicated that after a year or so it would probably die out, and that then "a good deal of affection" may grow up between the two peoples...