Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusion of his remarks Whitman presented the President with a book, containing signatures of the associates, tutors, and present residents of Lowell House. President Lowell accepted the gift with a few observations on the growth of the House plan idea into its present healthy condition. Accompanying the gift of the House came a huge birthday cake decorated with 75 candles, which was subsequently cut by the President and then passed to the various tables...
...Growth of American Interests in the Pacific and Far East," Asst. Prof. Baxter, Harvard...
...this position when he died in 1929. Succeeding him in Montgomery Ward was George Bain Everitt who had had 15 years of mail order experience. The company then began opening its chain stores. Inventories and assets shot upwards but the program'was predicated on further sales growth. Depression hit the company badly. Recent earnings have been...
...maturely they can employ, the facts acquired from their first three years' study in twelve or thirteen separate courses. If Phi Beta Kappa should join the University in withholding its judgment of students until as much evidence as possible is available, it would complete its century-long growth away from college social club to honorary society. It would be recognizing officially what has long been the situation at Harvard: that the nature of Phi Beta Kappa does not permit it to compete as an activity for the interest of undergraduates, with the fraternities and clubs of avowedly social or semi...
...Cancer. The pituitary gland's power to balance body growth suggested to Dr. William Susman of the University of Manchester that its extract might be useful against cancer. Dr. Susman, pathologist, had noticed during the autopsies of some 200 cancer victims that their pituitaries and pancreases were generally and suspiciously abnormal. The ill-conditioned pancreases suggested that the patient had been eating a great amount of carbohydrates, like sugar and bread. Dr. Susman verified this suspicion by irritating the skin of mice until cancers developed. Bread-fed mice showed cancers much more frequently than oat-&-cheese fed mice...