Word: grows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's where the washroom and the soap and towels grow...
Last week in Southern California, where panaceas grow like seedless oranges, his One-Two Plan began to bloom, on the radio, on the platforms of clubs and societies, in gatherings of small rural home owners, little business men. Mr. Wittwer aimed to complete a nationwide organization by 1940. Soon Otto Wittwer hopes to be more content with the way things are going...
...Grow more conservative, promote little or no reform legislation...
...which tall stucco houses jut at crazy angles. All but one of the city gates are generally kept locked, and a Christian in Jidda is acutely conscious of the hostile glances of the purely Arab citizens, all of whom carry knives. Christian prospectors for Standard Oil were careful to grow beards and assume native dress. Jidda, however, had no terrors last week for smooth-shaven, cosmopolitan Bert Fish, a wealthy Florida real-estate operator who several times circled the globe before he became finance director of the Democratic National Committee, thence broke into diplomacy. To meet him King Ibn Saud...
...movement for an eight-hour day, The Nation in 1865 uttered a gloomy warning: "The time is not far distant when all things will be in common and grass grow in Broadway...