Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upon his fiftieth anniversary the CRIMSON here extends to Lampy its congratulations, and adds the wish that be may live to be a hundred. There's no fool like an old one, and it may be Lampy will discard his youthful aged jokes and on his own account grow witty wise...
...elementary schools, high schools, colleges, welfare organizations; questioned sporting editors, coaches, sporting-goods manufacturers, and the Young Idea itself. He found that little Tatterbreeches of the fifth grade and gawky Longpants of first-year high school no longer aim to be Ty Cobbs and Walter Johnsons when they grow up. Their aspirations, in order of prevalence, are to Red Grangeship, fame as a basketball player and Paavo Nurmidom. Baseball comes fourth...
Several methods of avoiding high prices were suggested: 1) Planting rubber in the Philippines and elsewhere outside British control (this will not bring relief for several years, however?not until the rubber trees grow to bearing age.) 2) Co-operative buying, perhaps legally enforced, by all U. S. rubber manufacturers. 3) Using rubber as economically as possible, and carefully reclaiming all old rubber. 4) Tapping wild rubber trees still growing in many places...
...commendable application of democratic idealism American universities have sought to guarantee to all men an equality of opportunity to enjoy the benefits of higher education. College doors have been thrown open to the world, and over their portals have been inscribed a standing invitation to "Enter to grow in wisdom." From all directions and all conditions of life the aspirants have come: from mansion and hovel, from city and village, from adequate background and from no background at all, the motley thousands have crowded within the college gates...
...century and a half of experiment the accomplishment seems to fall far short of the undertaking. So large a class of half-educated men and women now exist in American society that even the most sanguine believer in the capabilities of the common man must see that to grow in wisdom mere entrance at a college is not enough. In guaranteeing equality of educational opportunity, American universities have come very near accepting as a corollary that dangerous equality of educational condition which, under the "open door" policy, sets its standards only slightly above the plane of mediocrity...