Word: growing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goodly number of months have gone by since the announcement of Mr. Harkness' gift. Nothing new has developed; the success of the plan is no more determined than before, as only trial can settle that point. And yet each week our honored and respected friends across the Common grow more and more irate and troubled...
...York Evening Post surveyed the U.S. on the Five & Ten last week. Its sub-headlines told the story: "Plenty in Chicago"; "High Frisco Prices"; "Detroit Trusts Grow"; "New Orleans Still Wet"; "Baltimore Gets Cautious"; "Florida Doesn't Worry"; "Millennium in Boston"; "Warfare in Los Angeles"; "Albany Much Drier"; "Denver Bootleggers Scared"; "Profiteering in Cincinnati"; "Washington Dealers Careful"; [Texas] "Not Jones But Hoover"; "Deaths in St. Louis"; "Corn in Kansas City"; "Moonshine in Louisville"; "Pittsburgh Dealers Quit"; "Cleveland Undismayed"; "Rhode Island Calms Down"; "Indianapolis Unafraid"; "Atlanta Little Affected...
...troubled seemed Britain's political complexion that many looked for reassurance upon the face and symbol of Edward of Wales. Wildest Irishmen like him. He has just cemented his popularity with all classes−especially the lower−by what may yet grow to seem an epochal tour of the British Coal Fields (TIME, Feb. 1), where millions are jobless, well nigh starving, and might conceivably have turned against the Crown. With two gestures of convincing sincerity Edward of Wales did much to forestall that. The first gesture was his report on the unemployment situation, which he denounced...
Twenty-two million eggs, flounder eggs, traveled in a baggage car last week from Woods Hole, Mass., where the Government maintains a fish hatchery, to Jamaica Bay, L. I. There they were dumped into the coast waters to hatch and grow. In three years, the new flounders will be big enough to catch and eat. The ocean around New York Harbor is too filthy for flounders to breed naturally...
...continued Professor Ames in explanation, "is situated on a large plantation comparatively close to sea level. Within an hour's reach, however, is the range of Trinidad Mountains which rise about 3,000 feet and thus furnish us with the high, cool, and dry habitat where our experimenters can grow plants not common to tropical regions...