Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That this organization is to be of permanent service is evident from its rapid growth and acquisition of a home in the Union. As was announced several weeks ago, the old assembly room has been fitted up in excellent style and will serve as a clubroom for the Federation. With a compact organization and its own headquarters, the Federation has the elements of strength and permanence, and that its work will be extensive and influential is certain...
...Robert G. Baumann, 160-pound captain of the college football team and president of the Student Union, briskly assembled his associates and their penny plunder, organized the Taxcentinels. Purpose of the stunt, explained Baumann, was to protest against "hidden taxes." The Taxcentinels signed a pledge "to help fight the growth of taxes which now consume 25? out of every dollar spent by the average person . . . [by paying] one-quarter of the price of all purchases in pennies, in order to dramatize this situation...
...behind as congestion increased. Yet in this age of luxury and disease two admirable forms arose: the scrubbed Dutch town with its wide windows and leafy canals, by which barges loaded with vegetables and flowers came in from the country, and the 17th Century New England village. In the growth of Amsterdam through its semicircular web of canals (see cut) Author Mumford finds a nearly perfect example of organic city planning...
Harvard has always been a target for those opponents of static scholarship, who deplore the tendency of our older Universities to bury themselves in a ceaseless effort to cast new light on the art of past ages, and fail to recognize and foster the growth of contemporary art forms within their own walls. It is encouraging, therefore, to watch the growth within the University of two such groups as the Harvard Film Society and the Cinema Guild, concerned with the advancement of one of these forms...
Throughout The Sea Gull sounds a deeper note also, telling of human growth and decline. The shallow Trigorin and the histrionic Irina end up playing lotto. But Nina grows, as one superb device reveals: in Act I, performing in a play of Constantine's she speaks his highfalutin but charged lines mechanically; in Act IV she repeats them, makes them live. It is in delimiting his characters without disfiguring them, in acknowledging their souls but questioning their perspective that Chekhov gives to The Sea Gull a kind of ember like glow...