Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fisherman of the Lofotens. Them and others of several kinds, three families and four bachelors, Mr. Bojer follows across the sea to the virgin plain; follows them as they turn the first furrow in the prairie sod, as they build sod houses, as they suffer and labor and grow wealthy, as wooden houses replace their sod huts, as they grow old and die, dreaming of snowclad mountains, of waterfalls and steep fiords; follows, too, those who go back to their homes in Norway and those who return again to their homes in North Dakota, always homesick for homes across...
...named Chamberlain, one living and one dead-Austen Chamberlain, His Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, who negotiated the Locarno Treaties (TIME, Oct. 12 et seq., INTERNATIONAL), and Joseph Chamberlain, beloved and fearless Victorian champion of Empire, whose darling wish it was that his son Austen should grow up into a statesman whose diplomacy should transcend even the limits of the Empire...
...college presidents of fifty years ago foreseen that baby football would develop to so huge a monster, it is certain they would have nursed him with some alarm. Had they foreseen that a part of their educational system was to grow, and swell, and put on airs until it became bigger than the whole, they would have taken due precautions to keep the usurper in his place. But they did not see. And in consequence, college football has now reached the point where many persons worship it as the acme of college purpose, as the sole standard of the merit...
...view, the CRIMSON advocates a return to reason. What if the public clamors for its spectacles? Let it clamor! That is not the affair of the college. The mushroom growth of professional teams all over the country is an answer to the public cry. May they multiply and grow strong! Our primary concern, however, is not for the professionals. The present evil of football is in its overemphasis in the college. It is in the college, therefore, that remedies must be sought and found...
...hail the Anti-Fanatic League! May it prosper and grow fat throughout the land where intolerance is still measured in terms of "difference from...