Word: grown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel Blanton Winship, officer in charge of the C. M.T. C. affairs, has written a letter to the CRIMSON in order to further the plan of getting a large representation from Harvard. Colonel Winship told a reporter at the Army Base in Boston that an unfortunate idea had grown among college men all over the country that the training camps catered more to young boys than to them. This as he explains in the letter, is an absolute misconception...
...both knew instinctively that the statement was true. It has grown increasingly clear to me that the statement is profound. At the moment I am a banker and excessively conservative. And I have learned that I am no exception in anything; less than in others, in that 'youth grows old'. And I wish I could be a little more "liberal". So: let the undergraduate hear the most radical men to be found, (whether bright or stupid), and let them hear a reasonable number of bright conservatives. Then perhaps when they begin the inevitable swing to the Right they will attain...
...work of moving the huge Baldwin Locomotive Works from Philadelphia to Eddystone is well under way. The historic locomotive company has grown up with modern Philadelphia, and now occupies over 11½ city blocks. One block will probably be retained and improved as a main office and public auditorium. The rest of the ground sites will be sold as soon as the present factories are removed...
...bulk of cigarette manufacturing is done by three interests in the order named: British-American Tobacco Co., Nanyang Brothers, the Tobacco Products Export Co. The second named concern represents Chinese capital, the other two British and American. About 80% of the tobacco used by Chinese cigarette factories is grown...
...been built. Beside this there is a 50-acre amusement park, also said to be the largest ever constructed, containing "a bewildering assortment of roller coasters, chute the chutes, 'cave of the winds' and scores of other mechanical contrivances beloved by children and the less serious grown...