Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evelyn is one of a dozen Corner cousins, ranging in age from just-walking to just-wedding, who spend summers together on the west coast of Ireland. Huck Finn himself would like the way the Corners grow. "We shrieked together in joyful terror . . . Black bilge water, floating dirt and oil and fish scales had spurted through the [boat's] gratings, and into this we slid." "Harry wore [an old cavalry] sabre, but not before I had nearly killed him with it by a blow which might have split his skull...
...University of Texas swims in a $240,000,000 endowment fund, a respectable sum which will grow so long as the University's oil and natural gas holdings are profitable. When the University's student paper, The Daily Texan, ran editorials early this month decrying the Fulbright-Harris bill as a giveaway to oil and gas interests, the Texas Board of Regents was upset...
...young, shy, afraid. As in Remembrance, Proust starts his novel with the hero's memories of having to go to bed as a boy-"the wretched candle must be put out and he lie there . . . abandoned . . . to the horrible, the shapeless suffering which, little by little, would grow as vast as solitude." But Proust, with youthful naivete, tried to protect his own thin skin and his mother's feelings by pretending that he was not writing autobiography. In an introduction to Jean Santeuil, he declared the book to be the posthumous work of a novelist named...
This debate is, however, but a minor sign of the conflict in interest. The effect of the metropolitan pattern on an inherently suburban institution can already be seen. It seems inevitable that the problems will grow more serious as Cambridge becomes more a part of the inner metropolitan ring...
...last five years there has been a dramatic increase in business aid to education," Keppel said, and "there is every indication that this support will continue to grow...