Word: grown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newborn baby breathes 62 times a minute, the rate of a grown rabbit...
...others: the French Impressionists, French and American moderns. But his first interest never waned; today Mr. Phillips has the best Daumier collection in the world. In 1918 he had enough pictures to open the Phillips Memorial Gallery in his home on 21st Street, Washington. Since then the collection has grown so large that paintings are crowding the family out. Another house is now being built where the family will live, but when they move they will not strip the 21st Street house of its furnishings. It is one of Mr. Phillips' theories that pictures should be seen in incidental...
...Material. Biggest quest: Rubber. Blocked in the Philippines by adverse land laws, Harvey Firestone is pushing forward with new plantations in Liberia; Henry Ford has six thousand square miles for rubber production in Brazil; the U. S. Rubber Co.'s plantations in Sumatra and Malaya have grown from 14,000 acres to 135,000 acres in 18 years of production...
...Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. Despite the enormous consumption of newsprint in the U. S. and Canada, paper production is still greater. Prices are low. For the past year the I. P. & P. and its smaller competitors have been paying provincial governments toll for paper made from timber grown on Crown land, sold at a wholesale tonnage price...
...stated that some of the abuses which have grown up under prohibition are due to the failure of some states to accept their share of responsibility for concurrent enforcement. He has several times requested a general respect...