Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commemoration of its seventy-fifth anniversary, the Glee Club is now exhibiting in the Treasure Room of Widener Library programs, pictures, and mementos illustrating its history and growth during the past three-quarters of a century...
...Foreign Press Association, founded in 1906, enrols all the accredited foreign correspondents in Berlin. At the present time it includes about 135 men from 20 countries. Its president is Edgar Ansel Mowrer, who wrote last winter a shrewd analysis of the growth of reaction in Germany entitled Germany Puts the Clock Back. Last week President Mowrer called a sudden meeting of the Association. He reported that the German Government did not like his book. All sorts of wires were being pulled to force his resignation. Before returning to the U. S., Ambassador Sackett had called at the German Foreign Office...
...sharp staccato phrase she tells his countrymen of his accomplishments, of the growth of Italy, and, as he mentions each aspect of the Facist regime, the camera swings off to the drone of Lowell Thomas' voice, to show the actual scenes of these achievements. There are great liners plowing across the ocean, droves of airplanes in faultless formation, spotless dams thrown across huge canyons, and smoke-stacks that dwindle away into the sky. But it in not these sights which arouse wonder; it is the fact that this Mussolini, whose powerful voice keeps coming back, a little hoarser...
Impressed though New Yorkers may be with the growth of musical appreciation all over the U. S., they still refuse to be convinced by musical verdicts other than their own. For 15 years Chicago has been aware of Leo Sowerby, the redhaired, bespectacled young man who on Sundays sits soberly gowned in the organ loft at St. James's Cathedral. Chicago recognizes him as one of the most important U. S. composers. But New Yorkers who went to last week's Philadelphia Orchestra concert were not deeply impressed by the fact that Conductor Eugene Ormandy had chosen...
...followed that idea through, found that a growth in the coverings of the brain is frequently associated with epilepsy. Small whitish bodies called Pacchionian granulations grow out of the arachnoid (middle) membrane. Dr. Ney's belief is that man's upright posture conditions the growth of Pacchionian granulations. The growths frequently erode, in one direction through the dura mater and into the skull, in the other direction through the pia mater to the brain itself. Their final effect often is to peg the brain to the skull...