Word: grows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last May at the National Convention of the Prohibition Party at Niagara Falls, Keynoter David Leigh Colvin declared: "Formerly it was the wandering boy who made the mother's hair grow grey. Now it is the drinking daughter also." Within 48 hours Dr. Colvin had been named his Party's choice for the White House. Then with a whoop the Drys nominated as his running mate Sergeant Alvin C. York of Tennessee. When that A. E. F. hero, who had not been consulted, promptly declined, the Prohibitionists picked a Los Angeles lawyer named Claude A. Watson...
There are two general types of pecan, the native varieties which comprise from 85% to 90% of the annual crop, and the improved, or so-called papershell, varieties which have been grafted or selected from natives for transplanting and cultivation. Pecans grow in 37 states but eleven produce the bulk of the crop. No. 1 pecan State is Texas, whose State tree is the pecan. Native pecans are also plentiful in Oklahoma, Louisiana and Mississippi. Most of the improved varieties reach the market from Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina where tourists find almost as many pecan venders...
...Wisconsin lumbermen, Inventor Mason began to experiment with methods of forming and pressing his pulp. Once when he went to lunch he left a wet slab on a hot press, hurried back, when he remembered, to remove it. Meantime a cranky steam valve had permitted the press to grow hotter and heavier with the result that Inventor Mason found, instead of a fibrous board, a dense, grainless, rigid sheet of material, which, in its present refined form of "Presdwood," accounts for 70% of Masonite's business. The other 30% is in fibre insulating board...
...Gloucester] go to Eton." Appointed in 1933, new Headmaster Elliott found Eton finances shakey, Eton boys unruly. With great success he put Eton on a paying basis, flogged a record number of culprits during his first term, has made Eton boys as good as they need be to grow up the Empire's masters...
...Rajas straight, sincere and moving talk. Into quite another part of his address the new Viceroy tucked the following, for Indian boys and girls who might be listening in: "Children, I speak to you as your King-Emperor's Viceroy and as your friend. Remember that when you grow up it will be with you that the honor of your country will rest. I shall very often think of you. Fear God, honor the King-Emperor, and obey your parents...