Word: grown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Maine's present Governor, William Tudor Gardiner, called "the most popular man in Maine," was largely an innocent bystander in the power export fight. Yet he too was mauled upon election day. He appeared before the G. A. R. convention wearing bandages on hands and wrists. Teddy, a half-grown bear cub he keeps for his children, had chewed and scratched...
Tall and green is the corn grown by the Farmers Hoffman on their Blue Ribbon Farm near Somerville, N. J. Tall and grim are the factories that have grown up there in the last generation, where Johns-Manville Co. makes asbestos products and the factory village of Manville has clustered like industrial fungus...
...very difficult to stop. Politically it is a touchy problem, too. If the wet-voting city winemaker is prosecuted, for consistency's sake so must the Dry-voting country cider & wine men be prosecuted. The hair-splitting decision of the Court of Appeals last week, distinguishing between home-grown and market-bought beverage materials, may contain the basis of a solution...
...small institute of landscape architecture sponsored by the Garden Club of Lake Forest, has grown a Foundation for Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The late Edward Lamed Ryerson. steel & iron man, left money for the movement. Active as officers are Walter Stanton Brewster (broker), Tiffany Blake (Chicago Tribune editorial writer), Alfred E. Hamill (Hathaway & Co., paper), Mrs. John E. Geary (North Shore clubwoman). Director is Stanley Hart White, associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. Students are picked yearly from the architectural schools of five Midwestern institutions-Iowa State College, the universities of Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and Armour...
Without the scowl but with butchery in heart, Meat-Dresser Campolo last week met in a Brooklyn fight ring the recurrent Thomas Heeney of Australia, who since his battle with onetime Champion Tunney has been married, grown fat, taken maulings in two of his three fights. The prodigious Campolo, dominating Heeney half a foot in height, 20 pounds in weight, many inches in reach,* needed no glower to terrorize. Undaunted, Heeney charged the massive Argentine, belted him soundingly, won several early rounds. Frequently Campolo turned his head, spat nervously, was biffed. Then in round eight, Campolo unloosed a right uppercut...