Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colorless classicism upheld by his great contemporary, Ingres. His three most important mural jobs, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Church of St. Sulpice and the ceiling of the Galerie d'Apollon in the Louvre, are among the few French masterpieces in this medium. With the steady growth of his influence, other paintings by him have been advanced until they now occupy a third of "the line," or tier of honor, in the gallery of the Louvre given to 19th Century French artists. To superficial moderns these big canvases, full of exotic or heroic action, may seem uncongenial...
When President Conant commented on the growth of the University's endowment fund for athletics in his address to the Varsity Club last Friday night he extended and developed the line of thought that has dominated the athletic program for the past few years. For in 1935, when it became apparent how far the H.A.A. had gone off the gold standard since the flush days of the Republican era of the twenties, drastic cuts in the athletic budget made it clear that sooner or later the University would have to shoulder the responsibility for its athletic program, as well...
Anti-Trust Laws, "We have anti-trust laws, to be sure, but they have not been adequate to check the growth of many monopolies. Whether or not they might have been adequate originally, interpretation by the courts and the difficulties and delays of legal procedure have now definitely limited their effectiveness. We are already studying how to strengthen our anti-trust laws in order to end monopoly-not to hurt but to free legitimate business of the nation...
...remedy this accursed condition, funny Vitaminologist McCay proposed that the League of Nations begin a vitamin registry to identify vitamins by numbers. Then "when a new vitamin is to be postulated, the discoverer will need only to address a postcard to the central agency. Thus if a specific growth factor is discovered for moose by some nutrition student working in northern Ontario, he will only need address a request to the central agency. By return mail he will be assigned some number such as 1,572, and this will be recorded thenceforth. As specific properties of this number are developed...
Tomorrow night at 7:30 o'clock the opening meeting of the John Reed Society will be held at Phillips Brooks House. Speaker for the evening will be J. Friedrich '29, associate professor of Government, and his subject will be "The Growth and Development of Fascism...