Word: growth
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Died. Edward Nelson Dingley, 67, economist, adviser to the U. S. Senate's Finance Committee; at Washington; of a malignant growth in the throat. Son of the late, tariff-writing Representative Nelson Dingley Jr. of Maine, he wrote many a magazine article on the tariff, was active in Michigan politics, formerly published the Kalamazoo Telegraph, the Kalamazoo Press. Early this winter the Senate Lobby Committee revealed that Mr. Dingley had received from the American Tariff League $1,541 for supplying research information on tariff activities and for contributing unsigned articles to the league's American Economist (TIME...
Cows weigh about 80 Ibs. Not longer than 48 hours after arriving at the Pribilofs, each gives birth to a pup. Two weeks later the cow seals desert their progeny, returning at ever-lengthening periods to feed them, investigate their growth, teach them how to swim. Their rookeries are situated along the shore or a little inland among the barren rocks...
...poplar trees which will mature rapidly, be suitable for paper manufacture. Aided by New York Botanical Garden experts, he has developed 101 hybrids from the 21 species of poplar. Fourteen of the hybrids are specially suited to papermaking by virtue of their precocity: in eight years they attain a growth which takes normal poplars 45 years to reach. A crop of this kind would allow a farmer eight years between harvests, would yield him a crop far more valuable than similar crops of wheat or corn. The cost of McKee poplar seedlings is about $5 per acre. In eight years...
...Growth of American Antagonism to Germany", Professor Baxter, Harvard...
...American trade when he plays up to its full value the Hugo-Lincoln story. This attempt in no way succeeds in over-balancing the florid enthusiasm which runs through the pages like a great exotic weed, and is very annoying to those who would wade through the tropical growth of bubbling Gallic lack of restraint. In contrast to the precision of other French prose, this translated outburst of M. Escholier indicates that, like the little girl who is very good, French writing when it is bad, is horrid...