Word: grown
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...youngest member of the Cabinet, came out of the Middle West. He was graduated from Harvard in 1900. In those days he was a great tennis player, No. 2 on the U. S. list of singles players. He gave the Davis cup, which year by year has grown more famous, and in 1900 and 1901 he was on the team defending it. One of his contributions to tennis was the reverse twist service. But he went back to his native St. Louis and went into public life as a promoter of parks and playgrounds. As Park Commissioner he announced...
Innovations. At the opening session of the Court, Chief Justice Taft read the original docket, some of the cases on which are 20 years old-the first occasion on which it has been done in years. As usual the docket had grown by some 100 cases. The Court is more than two years behind in its business. The object of reading the docket was to put in force new regulations given to the Court by act of the last Congress, empowering it to decline to hear many cases and thus abbreviate its docket. Among the cases thrown out under this...
...Madras declared roundly before the Congress that the white man must let down the color bar to other races, in order to avoid an inter-racial war in the future. Said he: "Providence long ago placed the white man in a position of trusteeship . . . Now his colored wards have grown up . . . He can no longer dominate them . . . He must treat all colored men in a spirit of absolute equality . . . A clash of races would be the ghastliest tragedy in history...
That had been an experience more searching and fundamental than loving a woman, siring children or writing histories. The boy was an orphan who had grown up, big-boned, quiet, and self-reliant, in New Mexico. He had learned Latin from a Belgian priest, life from railroad men. He told St. Peter about a prehistoric city of the cliff-dwellers that he had discovered, perfectly preserved in the high, dry atmosphere of an inaccessible mesa. He had explored the place thoroughly and gone to Washington, where he was received with scant courtesy and less attention by the Government...
What Fools Men. Literature in general has grown content to let the younger generation perish...