Word: expands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bought a farm in Maryland, near Baltimore, and started establishing a "boys' and girls' republic." The "republic" was to have an agricultural college and a school of domestic science. But Mr. Perky died before his Maryland Utopia could be brought into being. Meanwhile Shredded Wheat continued to expand, has now five factories-two in Niagara Falls, one in Canada, one in California, one in England...
...inability of the institutions to expand as fast as the numbers of those desiring to enter them is the most obvious reason for this first abating of the movement that has been the despair of educational leaders for the last decade. Yet this may not be the whole story. If the pressure remained the same, there are still many colleges in the country that could do with a greater abundance of students, and at Harvard each Freshman class outnumbers its predecessor in spite of the increasing rigor of entrance requirements...
Before lending attention to what the Democrat had said the Republican paid his respects to New England industriousness, to the importance of foreign trade, to the current administrations "measures to vigorously restore and expand" that trade, not omitting the Commerce Department's share in the work, with indirect reference to the Hoover deeds in breaking down foreign (British) monopolies (rubber, coffee...
...objections to such a state of affairs are legion, but the thought is no less valid. The American student is constantly arriving at a larger estimation of his own importance, and there is no reason why this may not expand to the sphere where he will not offer his valuable services except for the return which he would get for a similar effort elsewhere. Very truly yours, R. G. West...
Publisher Pulitzer failed to expand, to explain the World's impressive boast. But cautious advertisers may read the streamer thus...