Word: grows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tends, to break off the outlying parts of the Empire from the home-country. Sentiment is lauded on all hands as the binding tie. But as later generations lose the memory of the old country, will sentiment continue to prevail? When the differences in outlook and needs, already recognized, grow stronger than the bonds of affection, dissolution of the Empire will become inevitable. Meanwhile, the world can only wait and wonder which force will pull more strongly: sentiment or self-aggrandizement...
...another worshipper of this ancient and honorable custom is gained. Intellectual weaklings grow hirsute and become mental Sampsons! If anyone still doubts the effectiveness of this superstition and fetish worship, let him read Professor Tozzer's new book. Let him test it as other religions are often tested: by popularity, and by pragmatism. Professor Tozzer's interesting chapter shows that the whole college world practices it today and that its adherents are satisfied of its effectiveness...
Millionaire Bernarr Macfadden, publisher of twelve magazines? and of the New York Evening Graphic, gum-chewers' supreme-de-fruit, watches as a zoo-man watches his charges that hydra-headed amphibian, the Public. He knows the meat upon which this beast and upon which he, Macfadden, may grow great together. Hence, when he saw people everywhere, in lowly hovels, in the great homes which he himself frequents, racking their brains over small squares of paper charted in black and white squares which gaped to be filled in, horizontally and vertically, with words of Egyptian, European and native derivation...
...Enter to grow in Wisdom'! Come, Blunderbrats and Wild Asses Bask in the beams from learning's light And be culturally sunburned, if you can't be tanned...
Censorship is daughter of Intolerance, and member of a large family of Thou-shalt-nots who thrive and grow fat throughout the land. Who shall deny them their birthright? Shall the Salem witches have died in vain? Shall the ghost of Roger Williams be mute? Shall the eighteenth amendment be robbed at last of its point and meaning? Cotton, Mather rattles his shroud in horror at the mere suspicion that censorship is un-American. The Ziegfeld Follies may be a "National Institution', but one must never forget that censorship was in the field first. Censorship came over in the Mayflower...