Word: grows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week in the Oval Study next his bedroom where he told an audience of ten correspondents which tooth had given him trouble the week before: "No. 3 hold, starboard side." Informed that in Uvalde, Tex. Vice President Garner had developed a kind of "magic seed" which might make grass grow under the trees on the White House lawn, the President asked him to send for some. At week's end, he made his attitude even clearer. Leaving Congress to struggle along in Washington, he boarded a train for Florida, there to embark on a week's fishing trip...
...report was drawn up. Adviser Loening, 49, appointed to the Commission six months ago, is a rich, dapper socialite, honest and unafraid of officialdom. A life-long aviation enthusiast, and manufacturer of the world's first successful amphibian, he said two years ago in his book Our Wings Grow Faster: "The handwriting is on the walls for the steamship lines. ... At 500 m.p.h., 50,000 ft. above the ocean . . . this is the way we will cross from New York to London in six hours in the not very distant future...
Sustained through the contributions of J. P. Morgan '89 and Randolph C. Grow '95 the scholarship has been maintained for twelve years. At the Tercentenary officials of Emmanuel College announced that their financial contribution would be raised from Pound 70 to Pound 170 "in recognition of the event and the honor in which they held the visiting Harvard...
...excitement in this field is due to the gigantic efforts of Professors Davison and Merritt, who have attracted a great number of musicians as well as spread their disciples east and west. Because of its success and outstanding popularity, the Music Department should be encouraged to grow into a position alongside other big departments...
...optimistic hope of the Fatigue Laboratory that the Freshman Class will grow up sufficiently in the next few days to enable it to get on with its research; it is the hope of the University that every student enrolled will come to realize that his first great extra-curricular duty is cooperation in the advancement of Harvard...