Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Cancer Problem. A cancer is an abnormal growth which may occur anywhere in the body, which destroys adjoining normal tissue, and which may send portions of itself to take root and grow in distant vital organs...
...that point, inscead of hearkening to Mr. Babst's preliminary squawks, the New Deal froze the situation by dividing import quotas between refined and raw sugar. Mr. Babst was thankful to have the growth stopped but now with the Jones-Costigan Sugar Control Act coming up for extension, he wants the tropical refineries cut off altogether. Three U. S. refineries have been closed, says he, and most of the rest are operating far short of capacity...
Touted as one of the new applied sciences that were going to bust the slump, air conditioning is still small potatoes. The industry's total sales last year were less than $60,000,000 compared with some $38,000,000 the year before. But the rate of growth in small airconditioning concerns like Trane has been impressive. In 1933 Trane's sales were a piffling $743,000. Two years later they were $1,700,000. For 1937 the company has set a quota of $5,300,000, which would be 75% better than...
...Athletic Committee basis its conclusions concerning a "major sport" is the amount of interest it arouses in the College. AT present there is only one winter major sport--hockey--and its popularity is unquestioned in New England. During the past two years however, there has been a phenomenal growth in another sport--basketball. Tonight over two thousand people jam the stands to watch the game with Yale, tonight Harvard basketball will conclude its most successful season...
...requirement that education should be the "gradual adjustment to the spiritual possession of the race, with a view to realizing one's own potentialities and assisting in carrying forward that complex of ideas, acts and institutions which we call civilization," Princeton must instill in us that habit of intellectual growth, in order to improve "the big American disappointment" the man educated in the university. --The Princetonian