Word: grow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There were no indications, last week, that the ecclesiastical campaign for Hoover & Prohibition would abate. Days passed, and no great Presbyterian preacher promptly repudiated Dr. Walker. On the contrary, many applauded him. Indications were that the ecclesiastical campaign would grow in vigor...
Among the unforgivable sins in the rigid social code of the University, overdevelopment of the acquisitive abilities is not the least. The touching elbows of scholars must be wellworn. Not so with the institutions of the University. Their acquisitiveness is free of aggressiveness, and when they grow rich it is in a way unlike any other prosperity that is. The University feels the obligations of new wealth. It is humbled, as at the sight of something greater than itself, and proud, as at an enduring confidence...
...days and nights grow cooler in September, the gridiron absorbs the warmth of the waning sun. Rumors begin to sizzle, fat to drip off portly full-backs capering with pigskins...
...submitting eggs from any breed of chicken to the X-rays generated by 10,000 to 40,000 volts of electricity he produces pullets in every case.† They are immune to fowl diseases; they grow 40% faster than poults from untreated eggs...
Lilacs. Lilacs bloom for Christmas when Dr. Frank Earl Denny, research director of the Boyce Thompson Institute at Yonkers wishes it. Likewise two crops of potatoes grow for him where only one obliges the efforts of another. Nature has given plants a dormancy period which is the plague of horticulturists. Dr. Denny found that exposure to the vapors of ethylene chlorhydrin and ethylene dichloride waked plants up immediately...