Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I have been watching with approval the idea of a life subscription grow into the idea of a perpetual subscription. I have also frequently read letters in your column not complimentary to TIME and threatening direful revenge. So before investing in a perpetual subscription I should like to know...
...dingo is really indigenous to Australia or whether it was brought there by prehistoric man from Malaya. More important than academic wrangles is the problem of recently imported Alsatian Shepherd dogs. It is claimed that they kill sheep, so the Alsatians must go. The mere possibility that they might grow too fond of the dingo, produce offspring combining the intelligence of the Alsatian with the speed and ferocity of the dingo fills sheep growers with alarm...
...there is one thing dominant in our foreign policy," said the sock-footed Prime Minister, "it is the maintenance of friendly and cordial relations with the United States. Situated as we are on opposite sides of the Pacific, we are linked by economic ties which grow more important year by year and are of mutual benefit to both nations...
...have been driven from the Eden of our idealism, yet no angel with a flaming sword bars our return. At any rate, Dean Pound, a discerner of right and wrong of the malum in se and the malum prohibitum, the two varieties of apples that grow upon the same tree by reason of the grafting of law gives us home that we shall again come into that confidence which is essential to happiness. He said: "I am not without confidence "that the new era will find something in which to be confident." New York Times...
...Guatemalan government a 130-mile railroad which ran from Puerto Barrios (Guatemalan Atlantic port) inland. It was a very unprofitable road, since its other extremity was but Guatemala City, its only logical western terminus. But Mr. Keith pointed out to United Fruit that it could well and profitably grow bananas in eastern Guatemala, thus providing the railroad with freight. Then the road was pushed on to Guatemala City. In 1912 the railroad company changed its name from Guatemala Railway Co. to its present title of International Railways of Central America, acquired a road running from Guatemala City to the Pacific...