Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will he never grow up?" wondered Britons when they learned, last week, that Edward of Wales, 33, had slipped off like an Eton schoolboy to the new Mme. Tussaud's Waxworks in Marylebone Road.† There His Royal Highness promenaded for an hour unrecognized, viewed an excellent dummy likeness of himself, and was finally detected by a knowing urchin while he lingered in the Chamber of Horrors...
Wheat exports move chiefly from the Americas and Australia into Europe and the Balkans, although most European states grow a major portion of what they consume. France, for example, grows one-fourth as much wheat as the U. S., three times as much as Germany, twice as much as Rumania and slightly more than Italy...
...trunks and roots, injects 75 to 100 gallons of a secret soluble aniline dye. For four days the tree sucks up the dye. On the third day afterward the leaves begin to turn pink, violet, blue, red; the wood becomes tinted. After two weeks the leaves fall off, to grow out desirably colored the next year, according to Herr Behr. The wood however can be immediately cut, polished, prepared for futuristic furniture and novelties. The dye brings out the grain, shows off the polish, lasts as long as the wood. For more conservative households beeches can turn to rosewood; yellow...
...surrounding himself with secrecy in England. While great trucks were driving off his belongings, no men save those with special permits were allowed with in the gates of Oakhurst Court. The Prince is being mysterious in order to play the game of intrigue better, but the game must grow tiresome when it forces him to move so often
Cartooning, Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, twice a winner, for his sketch of Colonel Lindbergh's plane casting a cruciform shadow over Mexico, with the title, "May his shadow never grow less...