Word: grows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Illinois Appellate Court spoke on this subject in the case of City National Bank v. Davis Hotel Corporation, 280 Ill. App. 247, and said that the court has now found "tiresome and vain repetitions of these further abominations-and/or, was/were, is/are, it/he, its/his, it/him-so do bad habits grow." A. R. HULBERT Attorney and Counsellor at Law Chicago...
Goliath and Roland were Southern Sea Elephants or Elephant Seals (Mirunga patagonica), an immensely overgrown genus of seal whose adult males grow a short, useless proboscis. They breed on lonely southern islands, the Falklands off South America, Kerguelen off the Cape of Good Hope, the Macquaries off Australia, commute to the Antarctic ice pack. On the breeding beaches they flip sand on their backs and sleep, not to be disturbed even by man. Lazy and languid bulls fight with none of the ferocity of smaller seals. Delivered alive at a zoo, they fetch from $5,000 to $10,000 apiece...
...truly dramatic idea, and the sensitive adaptation by Sherwood Anderson and Lawrence Stallings makes the most of it. The scene is laid in Missouri during the Civil War, where we find Randolph Scott in the role of the forerunner to the modern conscientious objector. He "likes to see things grow," and hates destruction. His mature and civilized ideology run counter to the inflamed and destructive passions of the times. Consequently he is socially ostracized, is called a coward by his beloved cousin (Margaret Sullavan), and is torn by divided loyalties. Before the war is over, he capitulates and joins...
...another pilot, a good young fellow who is rapidly making his mark. There are lots of other people running about in the office and they all have their little problems too, but the important thing to note is that the weather gets very bad, the ceiling becomes zero, nerves grow taut, whirring noises arise off stage. A plane crashes and another pioneer of the ozone has gone west, if that is where the noble men of the sky go. Dizzy makes the beau geste, the grand sacrifice for friendship, chastity and the future of aviation...
...years ago Professor Robert Mearns Yerkes Yale psychobiologist, set two male and two female chimpanzees up in housekeeping behind a high brick Yale fence. Assiduously Professor Yerkes watched the two couples grow up, learn the facts of life, breed, raise families. When Yale received money for an Institute of Human Relations building, the Yale chimpanzees got a penthouse because bossing and watching them was the nearest Professor Yerkes could get to what U. S. culture forbade him-bossing and watching a caged collection of men, women & children...