Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that if newsgatherers had approached him last week for his esthetic views on skyscraper construction, the Gothic master-builder of the U. S. might have stunned them by replying, as he has said before, that "bird cage" or steel-frame construction, the enfant terrible of architecture, will probably grow up safely into a dignified adult. And he might have stunned them further-he the disciple of William Morris and deplorer of the vanishing of skilled craftsmen in wood, stone, embroidery, leather, stained glass-by telling them that he hopes some day to write a history of U. S. architecture which...
...situation is rather unfavorable because American people have not yet reached the point of sophistication, nor reached the point of social stress and strain which demands intelligence. It is at present easy to get on, but some day our life is going to get serious, we are going to grow up, and then better college teaching will be done...
...wholly unknown. The probabilities are, however, that the movement will spread just as football has spread. The benefits of the game as a means of keeping in form for summer tennis are open to discussion but the more essential requirement of partaking in some winter exercise which will not grow too monotonous, assures the future of squash. On account of fulfilling this dual purpose it is an almost ideal exercise for young scholastics--and especially, so when gymnasium facilities are not the best, as is the case at Harvard...
...jobs for his grandfather, finally took over the paper. At 25, he jumped at a new publishing venture, started a monthly journal called Successful Farming. The magazine faltered at first, then boomed. Now it has a circulation of some 850,000. Farmers read it avidly, become wise, grow bigger and better crops. In 1914 and 1916, Editor Meredith tried politics with scant success. He ran for Senator and Governor, was defeated. His farmer friends were not downcast- after all, Iowa was a staunch Republican state and Mr. Meredith, however able, was a Democrat. As Secretary of Agriculture...
Although I now realize that a judicious absence of clothes makes the heart of the Five-Cent Public grow warmer and that the catering to such people in such a way is probably not uncommon in the lower journalistic circles, I must state that I was disagreeably surprised and shocked to discover that the CRIMSON would commit a similar breach of newspaper ethics. The writer of your editorial, I am forced to assume, willfully concealed all knowledge of my article as submitted and concealed it in order to score in a manner which, even in terms of the printed article...