Word: grows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could devote himself entirely to the task. But, a busy Senior year preparing for divisionals allows little leisure to pursue such aims. Furthermore, the choice of some field of work is not psychologically a matter of spontaneous determination; it is rather an evolutionary process, one during which ideas grow and coalesce and have a chance to mature...
During the War he served overseas with the Canadian troops, returned wounded in 1917 to become a forest ranger. In 1928 the sufferings of a wounded beaver turned him against trapping. He let his greying hair grow, braided it in pigtails, began to write children's nature stories which were eagerly bought by British magazines...
...primacy of religion. God. Ethical elements essential to religion. The Golden Rule. The capacity of human nature to grow and develop religiously. The sacredness of human life. The necessity of worship. The need for religious education. Social service programs...
...under last year's makeshift Soil Conservation Act. Both authorize him to draw up annual marketing quotas in advance for wheat, corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, to obtain observance of them by means of benefit-paying voluntary contracts. Both bills agree in principle that when reserves on hand grow too large and two-thirds of the producers involved consent through a referendum, compulsory marketing control can be invoked and penalty taxes levied on further sales. Beyond that the House and Senate bills have so little in common that it was hard to find anyone in or out of Congress...
Junior Programs ties up its entertainment with school work by providing schools with materials for related art, music & dancing activities. Elated by children's response to her shows, Mrs. McFadden last week blamed adults for depraving their children's taste so that when they grow up they "patronize the most inane motion pictures, vaudeville and burlesque shows. If left alone a child will instinctively enjoy beauty and good drama. It is the adult who makes a disparaging remark about the dullness of opera and makes fun of so-called 'highbrow' music and the dance, who influences...