Word: growing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some four million visitors (300,000 last year) have toured Longwood, admired the sunken gardens, marbled conservatory, the great crystal chandeliers and thousands of blooming plants (flowers are replaced before wilting). Hereafter, the pleasure which visitors take in the agapanthus and the vanilla vines will grow or shrink (depending on individual personality and politics) with the thought of that $60 million. Longwood's taxexempt, gilt-edged lilies will toil not, nor spin; they may invite some musing future Coolidge to murmur: "Some shareholders...
...Colosseum and Circus Maximus) trail out in a dreary anticlimax through Rome's environs to the great cluster of derelict, half-completed marble buildings which Mussolini once hoped would become the site of a permanent World's Fair. City planners are hopeful that the city may grow out that way. Besides, come summer, they hope business will be better: along the subway's lonely route is the railroad station where trains leave for Ostia, Rome's seaside Coney Island...
Although most boxing coaches would be more than satisfied with a boxing turnout as large as Lamar's, he would like to see his classes grow still larger, fundamental part of every boy's training...
...cooperative and participates in the output of the whole farm. In addition to working for the cooperative and receiving a salary based upon the amount of work he does for it, the peasant on the kolkhoz is allowed to have a small plot of land upon which he can grow his own products and raise livestock. He can sell this produce on the open market to supplement his income. The peasant, as might be expected, generally prefers to till his own plot rather than the cooperative...
...nothing but an extension of the Old, smirched with the massacres of Indians. When the Age of Reason dawned. Fosca took fresh courage, but found that Revolutionary France was just a rational washout. In the end, Fosca can't imagine why generation after generation of men and women grow up bursting with ambition to change the world and right its wrongs. Fosca thinks he knows that "nothing can be done for man." But the retort he gets from mortal men throughout seven centuries is always much the same, e.g., "I've got to feel that...