Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...collegian, a mere junior at Princeton, Ralph Hills, stepped forward and heaved the leaden ball 47 feet 11½ inches, setting a new National A. A. U. mark. Three feet and half an inch still remains to the world's mark. But Hills is young. He may yet grow to full stature...
Leprosy never springs up de novo; it is always the result of direct contact. Children of lepers are born free of taint and can grow up in perfect health. By isolation of lepers, western Europe freed itself from the curse of the Middle Ages...
...book is exhibited to you brilliantly. But Thomas and Christian and Antonie?and a few others?are not merely exhibited to you. Instead, practically the lifetime of each is portrayed flawlessly. You are allowed to see how they change and yet do not change in the slightest; how they grow old both inperceptibly and suddenly...
...most beautiful children I have ever seen. . . . Although she was but budding into young girlhood, you could visualize the sort of woman she was going to grow to be -strong, keen-minded, intelligent, a woman of quality, fit to mother a prince or a president. I used to call her the wonder girl. Then came the day when they bared her soft, well-rounded arm and jabbed it with the virus point. She didn't want it done. . . . And her par-ents fought against it. ... but the authorities, the tools of the medical autocrats, insisted. So they injected into...
Business has not yet clearly and as a whole shown any tendency to improve. Conditions are still "spotty," with some industries going ahead in fine style, while others hang in the doldrums or even grow worse. The iron and steel trade, the oils and the sugars have shown the most improvement; automobile companies also feel themselves on firmer ground. But the fertilizers, the textile trade, and the leathers are still uncertainties. Yet there is little fear that the difficulties recently experienced in the Northwest will speed East, and a considerable body of opinion inclines to the view that Europe...