Word: mushrooming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Designer Calder sells his Mobiles and Stabiles, makes them all in his workshops in Manhattan or in Roxbury, Conn. Costume Designer Millia Davenport has an outdoor Mobile-a mushroom-shaped hunk of hard Lignum vitae, balanced upon another-which ordinarily is as still as a Stabile. But during the Eastern hurricane last autumn, with trees crashing all around it, the Mobile revolved ceaselessly on its axis, all through the storm...
McNamara feels that the tax question is at the root of Harvard-Cambridge friction. In an interview yesterday he described Harvard's mushroom-like growth since 1920 as an increasing burden on a depression-ridden industrial city...
...Before she sailed for London, President Roosevelt asked Mrs. Cummings to give him a private showing of herself in court gear, complete with three white plumes. She not only did that but sent him a jar of his favorite mushroom soup, for which he radioed her his thanks in midocean...
...publishing. Some of the latest copies of the Express to reach the U. S. were filled with their usual budget of post-crisis news: the Vicar of Southwold had seen a genuine sea monster offshore, a dog was tried for biting a dustman, a Wiltshire schoolmistress had found a mushroom over eleven inches wide. And across an entire page the Express splashed a row of grinning British faces, exhorted: "GET THE MONDAY MORNING SMILE...
...well known associate of Samuel Morse in building the new telegraph lines which were beginning to mushroom up throughout the country. He made his first large profit of $6000 on the New York-Albany line. In 1885 Ezra and other owners of the Middle Western lines formed the Western Union Telegraph Company, on which company he served twenty years as a director, and of which for more than fifteen years he was the largest stockholder. Then, financially secure, he turned to public affairs and became trustee of the infantile State Agricultural College just founded at Ovid, N. Y. He nourished...