Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thomas Jefferson once experimented with a vineyard in Albemarle County. importing skilled husbandmen from Italy. With the workmen came. Charles Bellini, citizen of Florence. Try as they would, however, Bellini and his men could grow no grapes for Jefferson. The vines sickened, withered, were abandoned. Whereupon Jefferson, in a gesture at once courteous and resourceful, had Bellini installed as a professor at William and Mary, then a sprightly institution only 86 years old. There Bellini stayed from 1779 to 1803, teaching Italian and Spanish, "first professor of modern languages...
...becomes nothing more than head of a motley assortment of non-related departments, with inadequate control over education, as the proposed government reorganization bill would make him. He must have full powers to set standards, and supervise their maintenance. Only by vesting him with these prerogatives can there grow up a national system of education, complete in all the stages of progression from kindergarten to university...
...Oakland (Calif.) club of the Pacific Coast League. In the spring Johnson will embark no more on stormy big league seas with the world's champion Washington Senators, but will pitch Oakland's three big opening games and then settle back, in the warm California sunshine, to grow old in profitable leisure...
...laid the Champion grow'ling on the ground...
...remote hauteur. "She is wise," they said, "only to confound; her beauty maketh mad." Yet gardeners, and others whose work is in the earth, have stood to the defense of the cold lady of Heaven. They have declared that seeds sown in the moon's first quarter grow more quickly than those planted in the dark of the moon. They have averred it often, foot on mattock, few but children and naturals believing them. Last week, their contentions were upheld by an English scientist, one Elizabeth S. Semmens. Working under the auspices of the Bedford College for Women, London...