Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Middle West. Traditions are much undervalued: even opposed. Not long ago I heard another University of Minnesota man remark, "Can you imagine it-my whole family religiously eats Wheaties every morning!" I considered the remark interesting in that it illustrates the blind resistance of Minnesota men to the growth of tradition. In this case I strongly suspected that a few traditions would do the young man's family no harm whatever. (He is a mere acquaintance: I hardly know the fellow, really.) My own family, I am happy to report, resembles the socially prominent families of the East...
...believe," continued this talented trio of ex-public servants, "that the time has come to challenge the policies which, under the twelve years of Republican rule, fostered the growth of private monopolies and subsidized them by exclusive privileges of tariff protection. We challenge those policies which under three years of Democratic rule aimed to check, balance and supplement these private monopolies by State-created monopolies and to create new private monopolies based on more legal privileges and subsidies...
...amount annually expended for maintenance and instruction. He has trebled ($35,000,000 to $100,000,000) the value of the University's plant. He has quadrupled ($25,000,000 to $95,000,000) its endowment. Nevertheless, by the uniformity rather than the magnitude of their growth do Yale College and the Yale graduate schools testify to the spectacular pedagogical husbandry of President Angell...
...There may be no noticeable change in the primary mole. . . . But the clinical onset may be characterized by enlargement of lymph nodes draining the area. Advancement of the growth from this stage may be slow or rapid...
DAYS OF WRATH - André Malraux - Random House ($1.75). New authors, like clouds no bigger than a man's hand, appear frequently on the literary horizon, and never lack for meteorologists to predict their growth into the greatest storm yet seen. André Malraux is such a cloud. Before he swam into U. S. ken, transatlantic reports from his native France indicated that his thunder & lightning had awed many a seasoned observer there, and that the hailstones he had begun to pour down were of a majestic size and aspect unparalleled. When his Man's Fate (TIME, June...