Word: growed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...need frankly to recognize that the Sunday School has no future. It is doomed to grow weaker in its appeal to the rising generation. Youth is having a hard time in squaring what he has heard about religion in church with what he hears in the classroom...
Easily the most important of these is the Text Book Loan Library. Despite the loss of a few books on which deposits have been forfeited, the Library has continued to grow and now contains some 3,000 volumes. Many of these books, however, are not in demand and add nothing to the value of the Library, and it would seem to be the sensible thing to sell them at the best available price, securing with the proceeds second hand books for which the demand is greater than the supply. During the past year the Library has been enlarged...
...difficult not to grow lyrical in praise of the Friends of Music. Not only is their aim a very pretty one, but it is splendidly carried out by their conductor, Arthur Bodanzky. This musician, who also directs the orchestra at the Metropolitan Opera House, is distinctly a great personality. Tall and gaunt, with the characteristic long face and high forehead of a musician, he is a bundle of nervous energy and fire. He is by temperament a scholar, even an austere scholar, whose greatest devotion is unearthing gems out of the dust and debris of music. As an example...
Thousands of people, eager for success at a minimum cost, support these "institutions", for modern enlightenment has not yet replaced mediaeval superstition. A "royal road" to learning is still sought,--some uncanny alchemy to make knowledge grow where ignorance grew before. Strangely enough, many people would rather trust to the potency of some unknown agent, than rely on the well-proven prescription of self-denial and hard work...
...Europe have depended not so much on men as upon "the physical geography of Belgium and Eastern France." Napoleon was thwarted at Moscow by a rain storm, and while wars three centuries ago might have been waged over the wink of a courtesan's eye, "international rivalries today grow from a ceaseless struggle for natural resources". Students in the musical departments do not always remember that pleasing harmonies are based on mathematical calculations and that a change in temperature may throw organ pipes into discord...