Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That's why we're all goin' down to the Met this week and watch Hollywood whitewash the whole buryin' ground he's lyin' in. We're gonna see Tyrone Power grow a beard and act real tough. We're gonna see Lowell's. Nancy Kelly look mighty sweet. We're gonna watch Jesse live, 'n' love, 'n' fight, 'n' finally get mowed down by a skunk whose name ain't fit to be written down here. Mebbe we'll even enjoy ourselves...
...characterized the academic system of Brookline High as one in which "half the students are plowed under to make the other half grow better." He added that many Brookline High students get into Harvard "in spite of their preparation", not because...
...wife, Anna, stinted themselves, sent the boy to hospitals, neurologists, special schools. But modern science could teach him nothing, could not even relieve painful convulsions that attacked him every few weeks. At first Louis and Anna refused to believe the doctors' verdict that their Jerry would never grow beyond the mental age of two. Later they had to accept...
...farther Japanese troops push into China, the poorer grow the folks at home. To Japanese army leaders the solution is obvious-soak Japan's few rich even harder. To do so, the army wants to invoke Article 11 of the National Mobilization Act passed by the last Diet. This article makes it possible not only to limit industrial profits, but to direct how they should be used...
...father's New Mexico cattle empire, reformed a tough bunch of desperadoes, who killed off every rustler in sight. Zane Grey at his best, it is a reminder that probably no other U. S. writer is treated with such indulgence year after year. Zane Grey readers may grow up, but they seldom get away...