Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...committee, including a dozen boys, in charge of Boys' Week (April 27-May 3) called on the President to offer him its honorary Chairmanship. Said he: The boy is the father of the man. Remember that when you grow up you will be about the same kind of man as you were a boy. You don't need to rob yourself of boyhood, but you can take your pleasure in a manly way. I have two boys of my own. I tell them there are only two things necessary for boys-work hard and behave themselves. Do that...
Wildiers discovered over 20 years ago that the micro-organisms of yeast will grow rapidly in beer wort, but not in artificial media. He called the unknown agent of growth "bios" in a book called La Cellule. In 1916 Dr. Williams suggested that the substance previously called Vitamin B was identical with Wildiers' "bios." Extracts of some substances known to be rich in B stimulate yeast growth, and many substances have been tested for yeast stimulation as a means of measuring their B content...
...Danks; her husband, composed the melody of this famed love song in 1874. The song sold, prosperity came, the Danks separated. He died 21 years ago in a Philadelphia rooming house with a copy of his song in his hand; on it was pencilled: "It's hard to grow old alone." Despite the $75,000 royalties, over which their children are still fighting, Mrs. Danks died in reduced circumstances in a Brooklyn rooming house...
...minister's career", Bishop Lawrence went on. "If he is successful, he knows that hundreds of people are leaning on him for support, that he is their leader and adviser, and that he is looked up to and consulted in every crisis of life. A man seems to grow bigger as he progresses into the ministry; the spirit of sacrifice and of service, the constant use of tact and sympathy, give him a new spiritual feeling which makes him rise to his responsibilities...
...admits the young must indulge their craving for self-expression, while the old should give more pats on the head and fewer raps on the knuckle. But it is obvious that he really bows before Kipling's God of Things as They Are. It is Zangwill determined to grow old gracefully. He is intent on raising the dust by thumping sofa cushions which have already had the stuffing knocked out of them by numerous writers. His stodgy play is only occasionally relieved with flashes of wit, and sudden fits of farcical frenzy...