Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of TIME'S origin and growth is pretty well known, especially to all of us at this memorial ceremony. But I am not sure the underlying conception of the Newsmagazine, so far as Brit Hadden was concerned, is so well known. He phrased it, as he phrased everything, with arresting bluntness. He said: 'People talk too much about things they don't know.' As a boy in school, as a man in college, he felt that general information, the simplest, central facts about all sorts of subjects in which people were interested, from American History...
...entirely lacking in the affair. The arrival of a warm spring sun has much the same effect on youthful human beings as on growing plants; all forms of life are bestowed with superabundant energy, and each of them utilizes a considerable percentage of it in the processes of growth. However, in the case of the modern college man, very little attention is given to the guidance of this lavish expenditure of springtime energy, and much of it is thereby wasted...
...subject, since no plan which will meet all objections has yet been advanced." All definitely stated their belief that too wide an extension of dining privileges would not only upset the count which the Dining Hall kitchen uses to supply the proper quantities of food, but would injure the growth of House spirit, just as "a club's privileges cannot be infinitely extended, or it ceases to be a club." Two Masters said that they believed that the inter-House dining would further social contacts, and that acquaintances made in the Freshman year could be maintained if some arrangement were...
...their assertion that the rapid and remarkable development of the country's electrical industry was due in large measure to the domination of that industry by a group of financially strong and well-managed holding companies. The early history of the light and power enterprise, as exemplified by the growth of United Gas Improvement system and of the Electric Bond & Share system, probably bore out this claim as valid for that period...
While Professor Bonbright conceded that a holding company is essential to consolidate small, competing plants, he averred it has been carried "to a point far beyond that of maximum economy. . . . Normal growth has given away to giantism with a result that a system such as Electric Bond & Share or the Insull System must be regarded as an economic disease." He claimed that geographical "diversification," a prime selling-point for holding company securities, is not rational. He roundly criticized holding companies for borrowing (as many have done) from the companies they control. Heartily in accord with these sentiments was Harvard...