Word: grown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opinion peaunts are assets to this country a lot more than Indians are. In North Carolina, where you say the Indians have increased 34% in a decade, peanuts are grown more than anywhere else in the U. S. I leave it to any North Carolina business man whether he wouldn't rather have more peanuts than more Indians...
Since then the Prince has grown strapping, attended Eton, developed a taste for hunting, a penchant for cultivating scientifically vegetables, chickens, bees...
French editors have grown daily more apoplectic at the hardihood of Turkey in detaining under arrest in Constantinople one Lieutenant Desmons (TIME, Sept. 20 et ante) commander of the French steamer Lotus which collided some weeks ago with a Turkish cargo boat on the high seas...
...seemed that the great care taken of his health and his determination to gain strength by exercise and prudent dieting would succeed. He was given his own palace and a staff of medical experts who devoted their entire time to his care. At eight years of age he had grown strong enough to attend the Japanese School of Peers, where the faculty were enjoined not to favor him. Though he proved a good student and acquired a fluent knowledge of classical Chinese, English, French and German, his health constantly caused anxiety. None the less he underwent training in the Japanese...
...Selfridge has grown proud of his store. It has become his life's accomplishment. So, with the intention of perpetuating it as the climax of his achievements, he last week wrote a letter to his customers : "I want to know that, whatever happens, the business which I have founded and into which I have put so much of myself will go on. Naturally, I should like Selfridge's to remain in the family, but I do not want to feel that if one of my descendants is weak and incapable of administration, this great firm will go down...