Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good. It appeals, like all melodrama of its type, primarily in the same manner as the oldtime whooping Indian movie. The play is full of situations. They come as fast as a redskin dodging from tree to tree. And towards the end these rapid shifts grow banal...
...precipitated in the form of rain. But although experiments have been carried on for more than a year and a half, they have never achieved complete success until five days ago. At that time onlookers might have heard an aeroplane pass far above their heads, seen the air grow clear in its path, and feel drops of rain fall on their outstretched hands. The phenomenon was described as "absolutely uncanny" one which would have appeared miraculous to a man unaware of its cause...
Meantime the Postal Service continues to grow. Back in the days of the stage coach and "real romance" a couple of mail sacks would bring a week's delivery to Chicago or Louisville. Today a million and a half letters are mailed every hour and the government sells fourteen billion stamps a year...
...reasons he gives are sound, as far as they are carried. Men who delay entering until they are nineteen or twenty prove less flexible under the developing influences that college is supposed to direct upon them: Many feeling that they should "get out in the world", grow impatient and either try to hurry through their course in three years, or devote themselves to studies which offer practical training instead of "deepening and enlarging the outlook on life", which must be, after all, the real aim of such an education as Harvard offers. Furthermore the report declares that "Statistics. . . showed conclusively...
...Where grow the wide-armed beeches...