Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grades is maintained. it is an iron band which ruthlessly stunts the growth of the tutorial system. There are not two strong and harmonious systems; there is in fact only one, and that one crushes by its dead weight of ancient routine all attempts of a second to grow to proper strength and utility at its side...
Whose Right to Oust? It seems strange that a country should live and grow under a great ordinance for more than a century and a quarter and at the end of that time not be sure what parts of that ordinance mean. Yet such is the case of the U. S. For example, in the case of amendments to the Constitution. That document says that amendments be- come effective when adopted by Congress and "ratified by three-fourths of the States." Apparently rejection does not count; only ratification. But suppose that a state ratifies and then reverses itself?either before...
...very mild sort of eddy which is developed by the Gulf Stream on the one side and by the Equatorial Current on the other. Similar aggregations of weeds, though smaller in extent, exist under like conditions in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The weeds, however, are not dense. They grow in patches here and there over the area, affording food for marine life...
...higher cost of bread unduly, but in Great Britain and the Continent?particularly perhaps in Austria ? the soaring cost of breadstuffs constitutes a serious economic, social and even political problem. With predictions of $2.50 wheat in the present movement, it is likely that this consumer situation may grow worse before it becomes better...
...steadying in its influence upon the present and the future. Yet, as the oldest college in the new world, relies of that past abound in scattered places, if one only find the diligence to hunt them down. As time goes on, these mute witnesses of Harvard's history will grow more valuable. Why not make of Memorial Hall a museum devoted solely to Harvard's history." The idea merits consideration...