Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than the $7,000,000 system of elevators and staircases installed at 170-foot Bonneville Dam for the convenience of fish. Object of the system is to enable Columbia River salmon to pursue their four-year life cycle: hatch in gravel beds in the river's upper tributaries, grow several inches, drift down to the ocean tailfirst, get to weigh anywhere from 10-to 60 lb., swim back up the Columbia River to spawn and die exactly where they started. The system, consists of 1) two separate "stairways" (of one-foot waterfalls separated by pools 16 ft. wide...
...front cover) If Old Abe were livin' right now These are the words he'd say: 'This country with its institutions 'Belongs to the people who inhabit it! 'Whenever they shall grow weary 'Of the existing government 'They can exercise their constitutional right...
Delmar Leighton '19, Dean of Freshmen, last night emphasized the newness of the problem. "I've watched it grow; only a few years ago we had difficulty filling the Houses...
...Hermann Schoenfeld decided to cut the boy's skull across, from temple to temple. This Surgeon Schoenfeld did last week, wedging the halves apart by three-fifths of an inch, knowing that scar tissue would close the transverse gap if the child lived, hoping that the brain would grow forward & backward as Nature must have intended. Next day, convalescent Alden Vorrath's cheerfulness promised well for his future intelligence, well for Surgeon Schoenfeld's daring surgery...
...education attempts to cultivate children's minds and bodies, lets their emotions grow like weeds or wildflowers. The results of this neglect, think mental hygienists, appear in the appallingly high rates of U. S. divorce, crime and insanity, in a national jitteriness. Last week the American Council on Education published a report* proposing that the schools pay as much attention to children's emotions as to the three...