Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...every class, upon entering Harvard, has found posted in various places about its living quarters a set of rules called Parietal Regulations. In the newer buildings, such as the Freshman Dormitories, these seem to have been fairly recently printed; but as the undergraduate moves into less modern abodes, they grow older and dingier; until in the Senior Dormitories in the Yard he finds them in company with regulations about carrying water from the common pump; use of kerosene lamps; and other subjects of historical interest. Wherever and whenever he reads them he is amused--by the prohibition...
...which is dangerous not only to his "capitalistic" opponents, but to himself. If the Mayor attempts to spread his civic policy to the whole state and nation, as he now threatens, be may find he has started something which he cannot finish; the cause which he is nourishing may grow to such uncontrollable proportions as to plunge himself as well as his enemies into the slouch of anarchism. It is a situation which any friend of organized society, whether or not a citizen of Illinois, must look upon with apprehension and alarm...
About the latest reports of a fall in prices is a definiteness which indicates that at least the peak has been reached and that for some time the price movement will be downward. For five years sellers have had their way. To grow rich all that was needed was for a merchant or manufacturer to stock up and wait for the market to reach a level agreable to him. Sellers having had a good time so long, it is only fair that buyers should now have a little opportunity to enjoy life...
...lips approached that world-famous American drink--the cocktail. This tantalising incident occurs in "A Frenchwoman's Impressions of America" by Comtesse Madeleine de Bryas and her sister Mlle. Jacqueline de Bryas, published by The Century Co. In order that a rising generation of young Americans may not grow up in darkest ignorance (and for that reason only), we reprint the Comtesse's stimulating account of her debacle...
...Because he has the confidence of Europe. Whether we will or no, our fortunes are bound up with those of the rest of the world. e are losing daily the confidence and the respect out of which alone understanding can ever grow. And without understanding no solution of international problems is possible. MR. Hoover has shown himself an American, and it is as the embodiment of what is most truly American that he is recognized abroad. He has shown no sign of being a man who will abate one whit the just right of the United States to act, when...