Word: grow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Character Education in Schools held in Manhattan last week, cast a red hot coal into the family circle. Said he: "I am arguing for a complete rotation of mothers and a complete rotation of nurses. I don't know how long it takes for conditions of familiarity to grow up between children and father and mother. That point can be determined experimentally. I think it is not longer than two or three weeks, anyway. Therefore, I should never let a mother handle her child longer than three weeks, and I should never let a nurse stay longer than three...
During March Harvard begins to grow somewhat restless. No longer do the section meetings hold their charm for the student who has to attend them. Sometimes he even wishes he had not enjoyed himself quite so much during the winter. The cold that he had to guard against then can only be found now where the sun never penetrates--and he shivers in his seat in the halls of Sever. He is impatient of the slow-melting ice on the Charles. It is time the grass began to grow green, be thinks--and lapses into the traditional dreams...
...schoolchildren of the U. S. are nearly unanimous again this year about what-I-want-to-be-when-I-grow-up. When school let out early one day last week in St. Louis, practically no one sneaked to the movies. Some 60,000 small figures, and 40,000 large ones, massed on the Levee to watch the silver-winged Spirit of the city come whirring over to dip and circle in review at the Eads Bridge. Young St. Louis howled its delight...
...mental old age at the age of thirty. They reflect in stereotypes; they converse in slogans; their thinking is reiteration, and their action consequently--violence." The remedy, say these critics, lies in continuing the educational process throughout life, for "it is sheer folly to expect liberally educated children to grow into liberal adulthood in a society where anti-liberalism succeeds...
Capablanca. Landing at Manhattan from Buenos Aires, last week, the great Cuban chess master Jose Raoul Capablanca said: "In chess today everything is known to great players. There are no new moves, no new tactics to consider. If the game is to live and grow popular it will have to be made harder...