Word: grown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silent immobility of the Premier suggested to observers that he has at last grown tired of saving the lives of those who seek...
Near Strongs, Mich., one Dr. John F. Deadman, veterinarian, talked softly and whistled to a full-grown timber wolf caught in a trap, calmed it, released it, in three days had it so tame he could stroke it, feed it, lift its lips back, baring the fangs...
Practically no rubber is grown under U. S. suzerainty. The Philippines might be practical for rubber plantations, but politics now prevent...
American plays are corrupting the English language in its native land according to Mr. C. B. Cochran, London theatrical producer. No longer is the Mayfair patois spoken in England; instead one hears "the language of Broadway". Titled ladies, grown weary of formalisms, delight in this latest vogue. And the new rich are cured of dropping their his only to affect a dialed peculiar to the characters created by Mr. Ring Laidner. There ought, says the patriotic producer...
Behind the vast banking enterprises of today stand figures of whom the public knows little, and cares less. They seldom appear individually even in their old role of archvillain, Publisher Hearst and ilk having grown discouraged by repeated demonstrations of Capitalistic probity. As the technique of their profession has become sensitized, bankers themselves have been increasingly obliged to hide their personal lights beneath institutional bushels...