Word: growed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dillon, head of the banking firm of Dillon, Read & Co., does not believe in letting the grass grow under his feet. Within a week after he had purchased the Dodge Brothers...
...Under the present system," he declared, "no section can be adequately handled in which there are more than 180 men. This is not because of the difficulty in instructing a larger number of men. It is simply because of the lack of classrooms capable of holding the classes, which grow larger every year...
Such an artless man is Mr. Byrne, he can tell you a simple story in no time. Later, as you think back, the setting deepens, the figures grow, you do not forget them...
...Revolt of Modern Youth, in which he exposed the "code of the flapper world." In it he told the story of an innocent girl whose family had never told her anything, who wanted experience, who found it. "The institution of marriage should be tended?it is allowed to grow like a weed in a neglected garden...
...administrators of the College have long realized the importance of personal contact between student and teacher, but as the college continued to grow and classes continued to increase proportionately, the problem became more perplexing. Individual members of the faculty have in many cases done all they could to meet the student more than half way. They have invited him to their houses and welcomed him on every possible occasion. In this way many students have been able to know as friends those who, to others, were cold lecturers in a crowded class room...