Word: expand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fatigue, disease, any undue strain on the human corporation. To repair damage to worn or fatigued tissues the heart works harder to pump cleansing, healing blood. Normally the arteries-flexible, elastic, contractile tubes springing directly from the heart as the great aorta and ending far away as tiny arterioles-expand as the blood enters them, then contract progressively to push the blood onward to the ends of the body-to the brain, the vitals, the tissues of the heart itself, the limbs, the skin. From the terminal arterioles tiny capillaries suck this blood into venules like tiny, feeble fountains trickling...
...University's treasury. It is thought that the yield may shortly exceed $1,000,000 a year. The Attorney General of Texas has ruled that this money need not be hoarded as a principal sum from which only interest can be drawn, but "may be spent currently to expand the University of Texas...
...However", intercollegiate contests have a tendency to expand and multiply into forms which your Committee does not approve. Such are intersectional championships and post season games. These are not necessary to sustain an interest in the sport and the motives are usually not really athletic. The policy of your Committee is to discourage any such contests...
...continued to expand on the subject of American wealth. Evidently he had never eaten a meal at the Cambridge lunch counters. "In Germany we pay for all our food; here you get bread and butter free." It is feared that he will never learn differently, as the party lunched yesterday at Massachusetts institute of Technology, and leaves shortly for Niagara Falls, Chicago. Pittsburgh, and Washington...
Nothing to do with tobacco or candy is on the program of the new organization. It begins by selling hosiery. It will expand to include men's furnishings and women's underwear...