Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lend his experience. Intercollegiate athletics remain in the balance in the minds of some men and during the next ten years it will require an energetic conservatism on the part of the leader to bring about the best results. Harvard College can be made to share in the growth of Harvard University. The new President has spoken in the past on the question of the Yard dormitories and on the feasibility of a large Freshman dormitory. The possible reorganization of Memorial Hall provides another opportunity. Undergraduate honor, both in and out of the class room, can be materially strengthened. There...
...paid in work. She went north to raise money, got her first $50 in Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman's church in Brooklyn. Andrew Carnegie gave the first endowment money. Theodore Roosevelt and Publisher Adolph Ochs became interested, but endowments never kept pace with the Berry Schools' growth. Miss Berry needs $150,000 in gifts every year. Only entrance requirement for the Berry Schools is that one be too poor to go elsewhere. Bartering learning for tobacco, oxen, eggs was known to Miss Berry long before U. S. colleges took it up during the past two years. Wearing overalls...
...armed revolt." But readers of As the Earth Turns will be reminded that farmers' lives are long, farms' lives longer; that depression and prosperity come and go but farming goes on forever. As the Earth Turns, May choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, is no Growth of the Soil but it is a solidly conceived, pleasantly written, hopefully colored record of Yankee farm...
...welfare workers to gain custody of two-year-old Helen Vasko long enough for surgeons to remove the child's left eye. Last January in Grasslands Hospital it was discovered that she had a malignant tumor on the retina, that she would die as soon as the growth reached her brain, perhaps within a month...
...interior of the place has made it an excellent site for the decay to which students are given, and while some of the more decadent may mourn its passing for that reason, none in his right mind will weep at the bier of the lecherous old incubus. A malignant growth, it has been dislodged only by repeated complaints of various natures, and by the manifesto of the Commissioner of Public Safety; the slowness of its demise has not been the least reprehensible of its characteristics...