Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hands of one publisher are uneconomical; the profits of one are eaten by another's losses; and the advertiser, regarding them as one publication, is loth to "duplicate" his appropriations; 3) the World as a liberal, "middle ground" newspaper has been choked off between the rank, weedlike under growth of the tabloids, and the shading branches of the "ultraconservative" papers, the Times and Herald Tribune and evening Sun over-head.* To one group the World lost sensation-loving readers, cheap , advertising; to the other, high class advertising and readers...
Because the first redwoods cut were found to be 600 to over 1,000 years old, lumbermen predicted the supply would soon be exhausted. Now they estimate that the present redwood forests are large enough to last 100 years and also have found that new growth starts quickly, reforesting is easy. Since redwoods of only 50 years ago are large enough for commercial use, redwoodmen now believe their supply is perpetual...
...this tendency for rooters mutually to disregard the old standards of sportsmanlike conduct is to a large degree caused by the professionalism which has become so integral a part of American sport. The average undergraduate spectator is not now dependent on intercollegiate athletes for his sport spectacles. A tremendous growth of professional teams of high excellence has colored the college rooter's judgment of his teams with standards of professional excellence. Together with high prices of admission levied for virtually all intercollegiate contests of importance, this has engendered a feeling that the athletes are in certain measure apart from...
...college education should be practical and have a very definite relation to the work which the student is planning to do when he graduates, for at this time when so many colleges are finding their enrollments distinctly reduced Technology has reached its greatest size. The cause of this distinctive growth appears to be that the demand for the practical education which this institution gives without requiring a college degree for entrance has increased more than the average personal income has decreased...
...League of Nations is trying desultorily and ineffectively to restrict the growth of the particular poppy from which opium, morphine and heroin is manufactured and the manufacture of narcotics. Persia will not stop poppy culture because a large part of its population depends on the business and other nations are competing. China's imperfect government cannot control the production. And because China and Persia do practically nothing, Great Britain has difficulty in forcing India to restrict its poppy crops by 10% each year...