Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reported in Paris that Geraldine Farrar had tried to get lucrative engagements from German impresarios and failed, perhaps because of the small value of a million paper marks, and in consequence has tried France, asking offers of French managers for appearances. The French, who are ready to grow angry about anything, grew angry at this. On a previous occasion when it was said that Farrar was to sing in France, there was talk of a boycott against...
...Berlin Friedenswarte, I explained my resignation from the League of Nations Committee for intellectual Coöperation: 'I did it, however, with inner reluctance, because the hope had not quite died in me that into this shell of a League of Nations a better content might yet grow in time. I am comforted by the thought that in my place one of the cleanest, finest men was elected, Professor Lorentz of Haarlem, whereat nobody could be happier than I. May the League in the future prove my harsh words to have been false...
...related to the final financial collapse of Germany. Thus far, although the end has not yet been reached, their prophecies seem more and more likely of fulfilment. Not only is the rate for mark exchange swiftly approaching the zero point, but the conditions responsible for this sensational decline grow worse instead of better. At first the Reichsbank inflated its currency by the millions each week; next, the weekly increases of Reichsbank notes crept up into billions; now, the inflation is proceeding by the trillion each week. The last Reichsbank statement showed that the altogether unparalleled increase of over...
...poor, while Lawyer Chew lived in the only " mansion " in town and preferred Robert Ingersoll to Henry Ward Beecher?but that didn't make any difference to Guy and Bee. They quoted Browning and Henley to each other and thought the biggest thing in life must be to grow old together, like the picture in the advertising calendar of the stately old man and the silver-haired lady, holding hands and smiling...
...extension only exemplifies the proverbial boundlessness of knowledge; and without doubt, practicality, the safety valve of today, will prevent the awful possibility of an infinite progression of such founts of learning. Mean-while graduate schools grow in importance and every year larger numbers graduate and become not "freshmen among alumni", but 1L. or 1G.B.A...