Word: grown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...less is the gymnasium during the winter months an important part in the life of the student than is Soldiers Field in the spring and autumn of the year. . . . The demands upon Hemenway Gymnasium, built many years ago, have grown to such proportions that it seems to me not an unreasonable suggestion to intended benefactors to remember that here is a real need...
...That is why American women do their housekeeping so deftly and with so little fuss. They have always known how! They have grown up without servants, and it has never occurred to them that there is anything derogatory-or splendid-about housework or cooking. Everybody does it! . . . The wife of the ordinary middle-class American cannot then, in the nature of things, be spoiled...
Chicago. With a soil fertile for racketeering, Chicago offers an excellent recent specimen of a well-grown and perfectly-formed dry cleaning racket. An organization known as the Chicago Master Cleaners' and Dyers' Association had acquired almost a monopoly in Chicago dyeing and cleaning. Members paid a $500 initiation fee and put up a $5,000 bond as a "guarantee of good faith." Bombing, slugging, sabotage, strike-fomenting and other standard methods were used to secure membership; eventually 92 members were lined up. They paid the association a general levy of 2% of gross business. There was also a subordinate...
While Russia's rich peasants (Kulaki) want to reduce their 1929 acreage, Moscow has planned a vast tract, of 10,000,000 acres, where wheat may be grown abundantly and efficiently. As everyone knows, the world's most efficient wheatgrower is Montana's Thomas D. Campbell (TIME, Jan. 14, 1938), world's "biggest farmer." Most natural, therefore, was Moscow's decision to send a commission to the Campbell farm at Hardin, Mont. There, commissioners heard that the annual Campbell harvest tops 500,000 bushels...
Last week, Mrs. Anne U. Stillman announced that she had grown tired of Panorama and would stop publishing it immediately. The entire staff, with the exception of Editor H. B. Mayer, who has a contract, was discharged. Said Mrs. Stillman...