Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...germ on the ovaries. Such a diseased ovary, when exposed for surgical treatment, looked "like a sac of pale blue cellophane stuffed with tapioca pudding." The ovaries of a few patients were entirely destroyed and typical menopause symptoms followed. Endocrine disturbances snowed themselves in increased obesity and growth of body hair...
...decided to concentrate its efforts on "teaching and research," simply side-stepping the other questions. Budgetary problems and the trend to social sciences are closely related, for History, Government, and Economics in particular, and English to some degree, are Harvard's most crowded fields and promise to continue their growth. In these departments, too, the twin specter exists of a large group of young instructors eager to advance and of limited, permanent top faculty positions filled in large measure with young men. Further, as the report itself points out, University financial statements reveal that a "frozen" budget may be expected...
...devil consists of an abstract man called a demagogue." Last year's defeat of Supreme Court reorganization constituted "a way of taking away from a great popular majority the fruits of their recent victory at the polls." The effect of anti-trust laws has been "to promote the growth of great industrial organizations by deflecting the attack on them into purely moral and ceremonial channels...
...University of Toronto's thin-faced, reticent Dr. William Emet Blatz, who has charge of the Dionne Quintuplets' education, reported his charges were of average intelligence. Their mental growth was retarded by their premature birth, but they are now advancing more rapidly than normal children in everything except language (they are learning both French and English). Dr. Blatz expects that in a year or two their I. Q.'s will be between 95 and 105. He is studying them to seek new light on the "timeworn problem of whether heredity or environment is most important...
Captain Charles G. Hutter '38 said that he was glad the University as a whole has shown keen interest in the growth of the aquatic sport at Harvard. Praising Coach Ulen, he said, "I feel that under the fine guidance of Hal Ulen as coach, Harvard teams will be able to maintain the degree of performance which has been shown in the past...