Word: grows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Witt, who stayed in his shaded study, ate oranges, made wise remarks to the English consul and watched the shells exploding in the blue waters of the bay, grew mysteriously old, suspicious, weary. Milagritos, who prepared bandages, went with the rebel fleet on its biggest battle, seemed to grow younger, prettier, less communicative. When Milagritos' cousin was sentenced to be shot, Mr. Witt raced to save him, although he had always been mildly disturbed by Milagritos' affection for the boy. But when he finally had the power to stop the execution, he remembered little ambiguous remarks Milagritos...
...Duce, I thank you for what you give me to make me grow healthy and strong! O Lord God, protect Il Duce, so that he may be long preserved to Fascist Italy...
...buildings, and he wants them to the good buildings, better than have ever been constructed before, and more of them. His views might well from a third parallel, pointing in the same direction as the two Harvard reports. May the ambitions of all three men as regards building grow closer and clearer until the time comes when they can blend in the achievements of their object together...
...omits such scary items as the Russian Fairy Tales, Slovenly Peter. For delinquents "above average intelligence" in the "Grades 9-12" group is included James Hilton's Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Typical title for little delinquents: Winnie-the-Pooh; for slightly older ones: Eleanor Roosevelt's When You Grow Up to Vote...
Some light on the failure with chickens was cast by Dr. William Ewart Gye, director of Britain's Imperial Cancer Research Fund, who found that even in the blood of chickens with growing cancers there may be antibodies in amounts detectable by chemical means. "A hen may carry a tumor," he wrote, "and have at the same time more than enough of the immune body in its circulating fluids to neutralize the whole of the virus in its tumor, and the tumor nevertheless continues to grow." The reason appeared to be that the cancer virus takes refuge inside...