Word: grows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pick up," he wrote in one of his innumerable books. He stepped into the street just long enough to pick up a job as Secretary to Prime Minister Kerensky in the fall of 1917, but that success was so short-lived that soon he had to grow a beard to escape detection by the Bolsheviks who had seized power and were after him. As the blue blood began to run, and the red as well, Sorokin became sickened by the cruelty and irresponsibility of the anarchists and turned counter-revolutionary. He spent fifty days in the Petropavlovskaia Fortress, another word...
...Cover) Through the slow winter months Britain and her friends had nursed their little hope, and watched it grow. They had made much of Adolf Hitler's big mistake-not invading Britain straightway after Dunkirk. They had seen the R.A.F. stand up to the Luftwaffe. They had relished the Greeks' brave stand against bad Italian timing. They had let themselves enjoy, and enjoy again, like lingering bouquets of taste, triumphs in Libya and on the Mediterranean. They had heard noises of the U.S. stirring in its sleep. They even began to talk of a turning point...
...parish activity they now allow him is two pastoral visits a week. A sick man, he makes these to the sick because he can share their suffering. But though he has not conducted a service there for over a year, North Austin Lutheran's attendance has continued to grow under a succession of supply preachers and the Rev. William Carl Satre's acting pastorate since November. And from his comfortable brick bungalow Pastor Otterbein can look across to the church, watch the crowds which line up for half a block waiting to get into the services, and realize...
More juice, by my porringer, and or anger! There are few creatures on earth more manly than the diapered hero of McCord's Perambulator Poems. Ogden Nash writes: The interest I take in my neighbor's nursery Would have to grow, to be even cursory, And I would that performing sons and nephews Were carted away with the daily refuse...
Last week two Johns Hopkins surgeons told how a bit of bird lore inspired a useful medical discovery. A Boston colleague, two summers ago, told them that when pigeons drain calcium from their bones to make eggshells, their legs and wings grow soft, spongy. But a stiff dose of female sex hormones toughens them up again. Drs. Ralph Gorman Hills and James Arthur Weinberg were so struck with this news that they went right out and tried female hormones on women whose bones were broken and did not knit. Last week, in the Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, they...