Word: grows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reiterated his faith in the war's outcome. "In order to win this war [Hitler] must either conquer this island by invasion or he must cut the ocean life line which joins us to the U.S. . . . With every week that passes we grow stronger on the sea." The real battle confronting Britain, he reminded his hearers, was the Battle of the Atlantic. "We have got to win on salt water just as decisively as we had to win the Battle of Britain last August and September in the air." And he paid his respects to Franklin Roosevelt, who last...
Ineligible to run the Braves, Turfman Adams forthwith got hardy Bob Quinn, onetime owner of the rival Boston Red Sox, to take charge of the club (renamed the Bees) until a suitable buyer could be found. But customers for a big-league ball club do not grow on trees...
Carolina Craters. Like the moon, the coastal plain of South Carolina and nearby States is pocked with countless craters. The natives call them "bays," perhaps be cause bay trees grow among the pine forests which often cover the swampy depressions, making them scarcely noticeable-they can be seen clearly only from the air. The craters are usually rimmed with sand, oval in shape, parallel and varying from a few hundred yards to three miles in longest diameter...
...social as well as journalistic attainment, lent a decorum to match the Transcript's antique presses (which had been named after members of the owning family). Until 1936 the single elevator was still operated by steam. (Said a visiting Englishman as the elevator inched upward: "Our trees grow faster than this...
Once out of the hangar, the B-19's wings seemed to grow. She is 212 ft. in wingspan: from tip to tip her span equals the height of a 20-story building. On the runway, Douglas' flying battleship began to show the heft of her weight: 80 tons fully loaded (twice the weight of Pan American's big Boeing Clippers). Her left wheel found a soft spot in the macadam, sank 18 inches. She was rolled out, finally tied down not far from 28th Street, where Santa Monicans eyed her with wonder. Over and through...