Word: grown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...robbers, obviously a ringleader and his confederate, must have grown tired of twirling their sombreros on a moving picture set, and rushed forth to prove that the West is still a place where the male population is as advertised. Some reports describe the men as escaped convicts from San Quentin Prison, but nobody will believe that. They quite plainly are re-incarnations of the spirit of the James boys, who have set out to recoup their fortunes in the only time-honored and accepted Western method. Easterners travelling in the West have long been under the impression that the only...
Conditions of the soil in the Union make the crop yield low. Possibly less grain is grown to the acre than in any country in the world. This makes cheap labor essential to the farmers and cheap labor is invariably black or yellow. The same can be said of the great Rand and other mining industries where white working men are employed almost exclusively as overseers...
...inference, from Mr. Firestone's remarks is that, Nature willing, rubber must be grown in the U. S. Failing that, rubber plantations must be obtained in non-British territories. This, in fact, has in recent years been done. According to U. S. statistics, approximately $32,000,000 is invested in U. S. rubber plantations in the Far East, most of the large ones being located in Sumatra. The most extensive plantation is owned by the U. S. Rubber Co., which owns three in Sumatra and several smaller ones on the Malay Peninsula...
...generation or more ago the Hemenway Gymnasium was an object of pride and amply served the needs of the University of its time. Since then the college and the graduate schools have grown enormously. The capacity of the gymnasium is now taxed to the utmost, while the facilities offered are in many cases antiquated and unsatisfactory. The small size of the basketball court furnishes an excellent example of this...
...York Times of April 2 describes the ensuing panic among those grown-up members of the University who had lost the adolescent regard for April Fool's Day that the Princetonian so well retained. But those professors who thought the editors so needlessly childish should have remembered that April 1 is just as much a recognized holiday at Princeton as May Day or Hallowe'en. Such gentle campus humors should be encouraged in far away Nassau and the office should take a little joke now and then...