Word: grow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...called over-emphasis on athletics, particularly in football. Thus while crew at one end of the scale is falling into line, there is a feeling in some quarters that the power and responsibility of the coach in football have reached their zenith. It is unlikely that they will grow much more. But an attempt arbitrarily to hasten their decline, if, in fact, a decline is advisable, would be idle and harmful...
Lord Derby, Secretary of State for the Colonies, predicted that in time the Empire will be able to grow all the cotton it needs...
...Matthes said after the massacre : " We will proclaim a republic before the end of Autumn. The republic will grow with the Rhenish grapes next Spring. We will proclaim it in a place least expected. Paris is the best place for the announcement...
...Although I have not much intimate knowledge of the busines world, I believe that there is a tendency among the better business men of Britain towards a distinct preference for men with liberal education rather than specialized vocations. It is a movement which I believe will grow. In the past, men of business have feared some lack of a steady habit of application among liberally-educated University graduates. Now they are finding that there is no reason to suspect this result: a man who has done well in one of the University's honor schools will probably do his work...
...their children posture and grimace at the command of bull-throated directors would stand by anyway. In such a case the children would inhabit some top floor garret, subsist on cheese and warmed-over coffee. They would have the questionable advantage of consorting with other gutter children. They would grow up into third-rate mechanics? kitchen or gasoline, according...