Word: expands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pupils, uses practically all her lungs at each breath. Her continual ability to do this results, physiologists guess, from some particular modification of a section of the sub-brain (medulla oblongata) which through a part of the spinal cord in the nape of the neck causes the chest to expand (pulling the lungs open) and the diaphragm to contract (giving more room in the chest cavity...
...fund which has just been given will not only allow the Graduate School of Education to expand its present research, but will also afford an opportunity to devote money to other necessary developments which were previously impossible because all available funds were consumed by the work then in progress. Although the present acquisition does not solve all of the financial problems of the school, it does aid the situation considerably and points to the possibility of a brighter future...
...help you build an investment program which will expand as your business and income expand. At National City offices in over fifty American cities and in important foreign centers you will find experienced bond men ready to analyze your personal investment needs and make suitable recommendations. They have contact with investment conditions throughout the world, and enjoy an institutional heritage of over 115 years of financial experience...
...strong undergraduate feeling against this spirit of "bigger and better anything". With such an attitude of the greatest good for the greatest number, it is quite probable that the minor sports, instead of becoming crushed by the more spectacular major athletics, will be afforded a well deserved opportunity to expand...
Because Germany's great aircraft builder Dr. Claude Dornier frankly told the right U. S. industrial leaders last spring that he needed money to expand his manufacturing plants at Friedrichshafen, General Motors' President Alfred Pritchard Sloan last month went over to Friedrichshafen with a staff of engineers. They looked over the Dornier plant, machines and blue prints. They saw the 12-motored Do-X, which last fortnight carried 169 passengers over Lake Constance. Result was that Mr. Sloan bought for General Motors the licenses to manufacture Dornier planes in the U. S. General Motors lawyers immediately busied themselves...