Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indulging in a little legal shenanigans to extricate the Council from its unhappy position. By shutting its eyes to the letter of the bequest, as it has unwittingly done for so many years, the Corporation can perpetuate the spirit of the Coolidge grant, and encourage the continued life and growth of debating. By insisting on the exact words of the will, the Corporation will only kill that which the bequest aimed to promote...
More remarkable was The Netherlands growth in manufactures. Lacking most of her food, forced to import almost all her industrial raw materials, the country nevertheless spurred its production of tiles and potteries, radio and electrical appliances, Diesel engines, chemicals. Amsterdam (and Antwerp in Belgium), are the largest diamond-cutting centres of the world, an operation carried on in plants similar to auto factories. Rotterdam developed into the continent's third biggest port for transshipment of goods and houses sizable shipbuilding yards...
...breaking up through the war a number of artificial forms of organization and social tendencies which, if left undisturbed, would either destroy man or hinder the achievement of his full growth. A social worker is reported to have said before the war came that if, as she understood, the effect of a war would be to destroy half of London, including its slums, and scatter its population over the country, it might not be a wholly bad thing. . . . God is ... putting to us a searching question. Money can be found in any quantities to discharge shells gratis to the enemy...
Even his opponents admit that Picasso has influenced the art of his time more than any of his contemporaries. As an inventor and transmitter of painting techniques he is unrivaled. A believer in eclecticism if not in consecutive growth, Picasso himself knows why he is always changing. Says he: "The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. That is why we must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there...
Past history "has pretty clearly shown that the growth of an overwhelmingly powerful state in Europe will not be tolerated." The authority on French history showed how such threats had "been parried by counter-coalitions", citing those against Napoleon, Russia, and Germany in recent times...