Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have just returned from a week-end visit . . . where I heard a piano demonstrated whose tones grow or die as the performer chooses. I heard the volume in creased after the tone had been struck ... all this without in any degree altering the characteristics or the piano tone...
Since representation in the House is on the basis of population, it is necessary that the number of representatives from each state be in proportion to its population. If population grew uniformly throughout the country there would be no need for reapportionment, but population does not grow in that way. So periodically a ratio is determined (one representative to a certain unit of population) and the number of Congressmen to each state is reapportioned. Naturally, Congressmen object to any reapportionment which would reduce their numbers and throw some of them out of jobs. Consequently at every reapportionment except one (that...
...less great. Griffith is the master of mass and melodrama, loud laughter and tumbling tears. Lubitsch is the genius of the nimbler gaieties-the subtle graces of light comedy. He has taken a thin old story of the businessman, the bored wife and the Plutonic musician and made it grow and ripple with amusement. He has even made Monte Blue seemingly a good actor...
...GROW, Lieut. Commander, U. S. Navy, Naval Mission to Peru, Foreign Station Annex, N. Y. Post Office...
This list of payers-up should soon grow longer. Belgium recently announced her intention of sending a debt-funding commission to this country in July. Last week, Italy decided to beat Belgium?annouced she would be gin similar negotiations on June 25. Because of her sudden haste, Italy will not be able to get a debt commission to this country by the time she set?probably Ambassador de Martino will rep resent his country at the opening of negotiations...