Word: grows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Street of the Fishing Cat responds like a seismograph to every shift in European politics. Anna Barabas works for a dressmaker, loses her job when French and Hungarian political relations grow tense. Her scheming sweetheart is arrested in a swindle, jailed, deported to Hungary, where he becomes a movie director. Anna and her father make a desperate expedition to South America, try to return to Hungary, symbolically find work in Paris when Franco-Hungarian relations improve. Just as the small foreign colony grows stable it is disrupted again by a flood of German refugees. Anna, as divided in mind...
...think that is a reasonable assumption in his case-has difficulty in finding a woman to his taste." Mr. Ellis said he spoke to Edward VIII "not necessarily in a pathological sense or anything like that"-appeared to consider him simply as The Boy Who Didn't Grow Up and Mrs. Simpson as the Mother...
...pattern but are cued in so as to help the feeling. It also permits able Helen Westley who, as a stand-by of the New York Theatre Guild, was noted for her interpretation of squalid roles, to reach a new low in this respect. A shabby pioneer in Green Grow the Lilacs, a harlot's mother in They Shall Not Die, she appears in Banjo On My Knee as a superannuated female river-rat, mewing & spitting, scratching at her naked, knobbled feet...
...killed off in its youth by non-observance of codes and general shady practices, it may well grow to be a powerful example to American football. Such an example, flourishing in practice as well as theory, would do more than anything else to return college football to that position which it once held and which is its inherent and natural birthright...
Some sulfur compounds cause body cells to grow extraordinarily fast, and are used regularly in medicine to hasten the healing of sores and wounds. Such substances may in some way be connected with the unknown physiological accidents which give rise to cancer. On the other hand, other sulfur compounds inhibit growth. These may be the body's regular protective guard against cancer. Miss Medes has made it her job to find out the answer to this phase of the cancer question, no matter what the cost. Thus far the brave scientist has discovered in her body none...