Word: grown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon as the post, telephone and telegraph could carry the information of the deposits in big U. S. banks as of the end of the year, the American Banker compiled and published the figures. They revealed that the banks had grown bigger by $1,407,755,877. On Dec. 31, 1926 their deposits had been $16,794,203,008. One year later they were $18,191,958,885. Significant was the fact that San Francisco (Golden Gate City) had the fourth largest bank, the Bank of Italy. Manhattan, of course, had the leaders...
...engravings are made from sketches by Professor K. J. Conant '15 of the School of Architecture and show 12 views of the University which has grown up to replace the College of 100 years ago. The first shows, University Hall, where the original plates were used: The second shows Massachusetts and Straus Halls. The third, Harvard Hall with Holden Chapel and Lionel Hall; the fourth, Harvard Hall with University and Lionel Halls; the fifth, the Freshman dormitories; the sixth, Mower Hall and Holden Chapel; the seventh, Widener Library; the eighth, Langdell Hall; the ninth, the Medical School; the tenth...
...lives away from the world in the forest at Montfort-l'Amaury, concerning himself with the creation of music: for grown-ups his orchestral valse, his mocking Tziganes, his naughty I'Heure Espagnole; for children, his lovely Mother Goose suite and l'Enfant et les Sortileges?a happier balance than his contemporaries have found. In the U. S. for three months, he will conduct the New York, Boston, San Francisco and Cleveland orchestras, will appear also in Los Angeles, Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Kansas City, Denver, St. Louis, Houston and Philadelphia...
Despite the faults which captious critics have discovered in his writings, the fame of Author Hardy has never wavered or grown thin. While other authors have been hailed, forgotten, rediscovered, his honor has had a steady, splendid growth. Perhaps there is a rocky artifice in his style, a misfit melodrama in the way he arranges a thunderstorm to enlarge the climax of every tragedy, a false fatality in the coincidence that so often generates his plots. But these faults are rooted in deeper virtues: an intense sincerity, unconcerned with merely literary effects, a profound, pitying pessimism, a relentless humanism that...
...face, as he grew older, became more hawklike, sorrowful and astute. Not in feature but in its remote, speculative expression it resembled the face of a man who has worked in country fields, who has grown wise in bringing, to life out of darkness, many harvests of bitter, golden grain...