Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...education. When this develops into a complacent consciousness of superiority it becomes intolerable. But as long as it remains the conviction that going to Harvard was not wasting time but rather the beginning of a vigorous intellectual life the attitude is correct and good. Out of this belief will grow the feeling that Harvard is doing the same today for its undergraduates that it did for him. At the two national yearly gatherings the alumnus renews both his honest admiration for Harvard and his interest in the present affairs of the University...
...work for Bank of International Settlements (TIME, Sept. 23, 1929). Some day the bank may leave its dingy Victorian building at Broadway and Wall Street. But for at least another century it will carry with it the legend of its nonogenarian founder, which has just begun to grow. Except for Rockefeller, he was the last of the eigth Century Titans...
Mayor Curley's gesture last week was to insure his life for $102,285 and make these provisions: upon the death of the last of his four children who will share its income, the fund shall be invested at 5% shall be allowed to grow for two centuries, becoming $45,548,527 in 2131. Thereafter its income of $1,821,943 per year shall be used to care for Boston's unemployed...
...week passed a bill requiring that, to collect the State's bounty of 50? per rattlesnake, snake-hunters must produce not only the rattle but at least one-half of the rattlesnake. Occasion for the measure was a racket: hunters were cutting off rattles, turning snakes loose to grow more. More dangerous than rattling rattlesnakes are de-rattled, silent rattlesnakes...
There is an ant queen who has a pocket in her head and combs on her feet. After her travels through dirt, she combs her body for earth with which to grow a garden of fungus in her pocket. When she has found a crevice in which to set up housekeeping, she deposits the garden beside her, fertilizes it by breaking some of her own eggs. When the rest of the eggs hatch into worker-ants, they assume the task of tending the garden...