Word: grow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both have much in common. Their size is not radically different; both run pictures; and the purpose of each is to condense the news of the world in the smallest possible space and here and there through it all planting little seeds of thought from which great ideas will grow and make this a happier place for all of us. They differ only in the selection of the community class they have decided to serve...
Prof. Imre advanced as his opinion the statement that even if the optic nerve could grow again-which has never been established-and even if there were a possibility of transplanting a complete eye from one man to another, the question could not have any practical importance, because no physician should be allowed to, and no physician with any conscience would, remove an eye with good vision for making a rather uncertain experiment...
Died. Laurenus Clark Seelye, 87, President Emeritus of Smith College; in Northampton, Mass. He saw Smith's enrollment grow under his guidance from 14 girls in 1873 to 1,635 in 1910, when he retired. His definition of what a graduate of a woman's college should be was "intelligent gentlewoman...
...long been the battle cry of those who are dissatisfied with the present League of Nations structure. Last week's closure of the Fifth General Assembly of the League of Nations at Geneva, in which 55 nations took part, showed that the teeth have begun to grow...
Wahabis. With an increasingly jealous eye, the Emir of Nejd and Hasa viewed the opportunist power of his enemy, Husein, grow like an orchid upon the air. The brow of the beturbaned giant with the coal-black beard became furrowed with anger at the irreligion of the Shia and Sunni Moslems. He would crush them, and off to Mecca he went with 72,000 fanatics before him. He would depose their upstart Husein, he would purge Islam of Moslem impurities. He, Faisal Ibn Abdul-Aziz Ibn Saud, Calif of the Saud Sect, would rule all Islam with the sword...