Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...majority of the readers of this newspaper are probably not old enough to have seen many great revolutionizing inventions develop from what seemed to be a joke to a great popular necessity. The writer has seen several. He saw the electric are and incandescent light grow from a very doubtful laboratory experiment to a public necessity. He saw the electric street car grow from an impossible nuisance to the universal method of street transportation. He saw the bicycle develop from a great high wheel which required an acrobat to ride, into a popular device which nearly everybody knows...
...partisan politics must have its fling. The important foreign posts are the plums that politicians grow to feed campaign fund contributors; until some political Burbank produces a new variety they will continue to be eaten as soon as they are ripe. America's international relations cannot reach the plane attained by other nations, as long as our foreign representatives are subject to change without notice. And the appeal for a higher quality in our public servants will not be answered as long as they have so doubtful an incentive to service as now exists...
...undersigned officers and students of Harvard University, warmly greet you on the occasion of your coming birthday. Gratefully recalling your services to America and to the world, we hope that in each succeeding year you will see the principles of international cooperation for which you stood grow to an ever-increasing influence over men and nations...
Civilization for generations has been becoming more and more complex; it is to continue to grow more complex. The individual must prepare himself; he must look farther ahead than ever before. You, whatever vocation you follow, must know more and more of matters relating to countries other than your...
...methods used by one of the largest and best organized departments in Harvard College. The result of this study indicated that a vulnerable point in our whole scheme of instruction is the necessity of relying to a considerable degree upon the competence and judgement of immature assistants whenever courses grow beyond a certain certain size...