Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...philosophy of history and Goothe's. Undergraduate students of history are lucky in their chance to work with a man of such experience of life, such democratic ideals, such a stirring intellectual temperament. Graduate students of history and of philosophy will find in Philosophy 20 a seminar which will grow through their active participation under an intellectual leader whose vitally stimulating, very spirited teaching may well be compared with the great teaching of William James...
...soldiers than the Army conscript system. The Army numbers 250,000, but the Fascist Volunteer Militia, armed, drilled and equipped with every modern weapon, has reached nearly 400,000, with more youths constantly pushing up from the Avanguardisti which is fed in turn by the Fascist-drilled moppets who grow up constantly out of the Balilla...
Narrator and tragic chorus of the story is Marget, one of the three daughters of an embittered farmer and his saintly wife. As children, the girls lead a lonely but far from hopeless life. As they grow up they begin to realize the desperateness of the family struggle for existence. When Grant comes to live with them and help work the farm, Marget and Kerrin fall in love with him. He has no eyes for anyone but Merle, who will not look in his direction. Disasters come thick & fast. A long drought nearly ruins the farm, Kerrin kills herself, Grant...
...Europe's colonizing Great Powers. Only port of entry is Djibouti in French Somaliland. Otherwise Italy and Britain hem the country in on all sides. In addition Japanese tycoons who have been dumping cheap cotton goods and manufactures in the country, are negotiating for great tracts of land to grow their own cotton in Abyssinia. Foreign observers believe that France and Britain are now willing for Italy to "influence" Abyssinia in return for pulling France's chestnuts out of the Austro-Nazi fire, and for squashing Japanese competition in Africa...
...Raymond Ditmars, New York Zoological Park's famed reptile man. was over at last. His bushmaster, a great snake whose bite is the deadliest in the American tropics, had been caught by a white laborer on a Trinidad cocoa plantation. Half the length to which a bushmaster may grow (12 ft.), it behaved characteristically by refusing to eat. But it drank copiously, gave every indication of a willingness to bite Dr. Ditmars at the first opportunity. Should that happen, with no serum handy, Dr. Ditmars would probably die in less than ten minutes...