Word: growing
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...candidates for posts in Asia and the Levant. Men from the University who apply must be between the ages of 21 and 28. Applicants under 21 require responsibility on the part of the company which the latter has found impossible to assume. Older than 28, the applicants seem to grow dissatisfied to be in the same class with younger men. The term of the school is from three to four months. It meets in the main offices of the company, 26 Broadway, New York City. Directors and managers of the company give talks and read papers on phases...
...depicted forcefully the conditions of the United States at the present time in its contented attitude of settling back to grow rich and its "corporal's guards which chase from Alaska to Vera Cruz" with no definite purpose; the fleet with its individual ships in good order but lacking as "a fighting unit." All of which, he said, showed the inconsistent lack of detail. Congress did not go far enough, it was willing to do as much as its intelligence could comprehend but there it stopped...
When the Freshman dormitories were built last year, thirteen small trees were planted in the plot of land between Smith and Standish Halls. Since the soil was not good, they did not grow very well, and therefore were taken out last fall...
Exactly on this principle the Faculty of Yale forbade men to play feminine parts in dramatic performances for two successive years. It was feared they would grow effeminate! This is over-estimating the influence or importance of an institution which is not so over-estimated by the participators in it. The college debater is supposed to carry away the firm idea that the methods of point-debating are the methods of public life; he is supposed to assume that his proof by statistics and juggling with masses of facts forms the basis for all conviction. Far from it. He knows...
...scrapbook on trout and trout-fishing. From that scrapbook began the collection of books entirely on trout and trout-fishing; then there were added books with chapters on those subjects and so no until the four heads mentioned above were gradually drawn in and the library began to grow...