Word: grow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news of Freshman requirements. Yet in their way the former are as important as the latter; they mark two more steps in a series that has been proceeding quietly all year. The University is a many-headed creature and when it moves it steps circumspectly one is tempted to grow impatient with it; but in most cases the caution is warranted--and it will be seen on looking back over as year like the one just past that the total advance, though made by slow degrees, has been considerable...
...progress" and the young people who look for a means of "self-expression." He would have the former realize that literature is a great force in the nation, that it has a place in the State University along with the science of making a hundred bushels of wheat grow where ten grew before. Then turning to the other camp, he would have them produce this literature which is to be the force. They should appreciate the work that our pioneers have done. "For the 'bore' of 1850, the plow and hammer; for his sons, the pursuit of happiness...
...There are several features", Mr. Harding said, "concerning a Reserve Bank branch in Cuba which grow out of the intimate connection between Cuba and the United States. It is, in the first place, the only foreign country in which all transactions are carried on in dollars, and whose circulating medium and legal tender are entirely American currency. Moreover, the government of the United States exercises a quasi-guardianship over the island which makes it entirely different from any other available banking field...
...encourage participation in organized athletics, and to make men take part in games which are enjoyable and can be played in after life. This is a wise policy; the college performs a useful service if it develops in men a liking for games they can play as they grow older, and for outdoor activity generally. Except for the comparatively small number of men who need some special sort of physical building up, none of the wearisome gymnasium exercise with chest weights and other apparatus which naturally come to mind with the phrase "compulsory exercise" are required...
...wealthy Middle Western mother, who was doing her best to " d�but" her daughter into Washington society. Gwendolyn's debut flivvered, but Ralph did not. He was canny, waited and won her and her fortune. He had grown a trifle tubby with the passage of years?he would grow more corpulent still, but he had succeeded. The fleshpots were his. He ends, for the present, as Executive Secretary of the National Commercial (lobbying) Association, at a salary of $25,000 a year. Before he dies, one imagines, he will have become so prominent that he may write the story...