Word: grown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...industrial vein was becoming purer, too, as Ohio grew and diversified with rolling mills at Youngstown, rubber at Akron, motor cars (Packard) at Warren, ore and paint at Cleveland, liquor at Cincinnati. More numerous and politically potent than all were Ohio's farmers. State pride in "home grown" products was the bond used by the politicians to tie the whole State together...
...Dean Langdell was working with a small group of selected enthusiastic students who were willing to make themselves the guinea pigs for experiment in legal education. But classes have grown since then, incidentally being less carefully selected and the case system is poorly suited for giving large groups of students a practical legal education. Although with a few selected men the system of instruction makes little difference, the case method has limitations with a crowded schedule and crowded classrooms...
What's wrong? The answer can probably be found in the New Englander's reticence to ballyhoo himself and his community. He has been quietly going about his business for two centuries. His industrialism, deeprooted, has grown like an oak and not like a mushroom...
...esthetes who long to do her honor. Her library is stocked with the works of Shelley and with the accounts of antique murder trials; her closets contain dresses from Paris; she has had two husbands before Mr. Benét; the daughters of one of them are now grown...
...concert was one day given at a children's prison. The next day astonished parents who had abandoned all hope of reform received penitent and regretful letters from their wayward offspring who promised rigid goodness for the future. The band was rushed to a grown-up prison, and soon the embittered "lifers" were shedding tears and promising to turn over a new leaf...