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At any rate, if the young man owed his beauty, his distinction and his winning manner to the dreams of one of his parents, it was certainly to those of Mr. Grew, who, while outwardly devoting his life to the manufacture and dissemination of Grew's Secure
His Father's Son 1909
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Slagden's button factory — the institution which was later to acquire fame, and even notoriety, as the birthplace of Grew's
His Father's Son 1909
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At Harvard, Ronald had done exactly what the hypothetical Mason Grew would have done, had not his actual self, at the same age, been working his way up in old Slagden's button factory -- the institution which was later to acquire fame, and even notoriety, as the birthplace of Grew's Secure Suspender Buckle.
His Father's Son 1909
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At any rate, if the young man owed his beauty, his distinction and his winning manner to the dreams of one of his parents, it was certainly to those of Mr. Grew, who, while outwardly devoting his life to the manufacture and dissemination of Grew's Secure Suspender Buckle, moved in an enchanted inward world peopled with all the figures of romance.
His Father's Son 1909
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Grew's chest collapsed, and he became suddenly conscious of his comic face in its rim of sandy whiskers.
His Father's Son 1909
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Grew's book was epoch-marking in pointing out the sex-differences in plants.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
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In 1681, while Malpighi's work, Anatomia plantarum, was on its way to the Royal Society for publication, Grew's Anatomy of Vegetables was in the hands of the publishers, making its appearance a few months earlier than the work of the great Italian.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
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This had happened while Ronald was still at school; and now Mr.. Grew slept in the Wingfield cemetery, under a life-size theo - logical virtue of her own choosing, and Mr. Grew's prognostications as to Ronald's ability to "take right hold" in New York were being more and more brilliantly fulfilled.
Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton 1899
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At Harvard, Ronald had done exactly what the hypothetical Mason Grew would have done, had not his actual self, at the same age, been working his way up in old Slagden's button factory -- the institution which was later to acquire fame, and even notoriety, as the birthplace of Grew's Secure Suspender Buckle.
Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton 1899
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At any rate, if the young man owed his beauty, his distinction and his winning manner to the dreams of one of his parents, it was certainly to those of Mr. Grew, who, while outwardly devoting his life to the manufacture and dissemination of Grew's Secure Suspender Buckle, moved in an enchanted inward world peopled with all the figures of romance.
Tales of Men and Ghosts Edith Wharton 1899
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