Read the excerpt from Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl.

Friday, January 28, 1944

The various milkmen, grocers, and butchers of the two ex-housewives have already grown beards in our minds, so often have they been praised to the skies or pulled to pieces; it is impossible for anything in the conversation to be new or fresh

In the diary entry, what is the figurative meaning of "grown beards"?

aged

become obscure

become uninspiring

stopping shaving

Will have the greatest effect on human health. pollution in the a. troposphere b. stratosphere mesosphere d. thermosphere

Describe the events that preceded and led to the partition of india. what were the effects of partition on india and pakistan?

The proposed downtown mall development will cause severe economic harm to our city. i, like everyone else here, am concerned about the troubled economy, and we all know the importance of job creation — especially here - but these concerns shouldn't push us to blindly support supposed "job creators" without first looking at the data. the truth is that when jobs are created in one place, they're usually destroyed somewhere else. studies have shown that for every job created by a mall, at least one job in a local business is lost. as the former owner of two long-standing small businesses in our community, i know all too well the power of these big commercial chains. my fellow citizens, we have watched this evil evolve for decades, and it's time to take a stand. these new chain stores may be able to offer lower prices on some goods, but they also take money out of our community to pay distant executives and shareholders. if we oppose what is the author's point of view?