Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dress, representing the river, is pouring a torrent from a vase. In the background is a map with the river labeled "Rio Téo-doro." Below, kneeling at a portable table, Kermit Roosevelt keeps a record of the expedition. In the centre two expeditionists are pushing aside jungle growth so that a burly, square-headed figure in khaki breeches and boots may gaze with hat in hand upon his river...
Importation of culture can never produce the intellectual morale that is bred by the slow internal growth of an integrated department in any field of knowledge. Mr. Conant can afford the university a plethora of great names, but unless the upward trend of the curricula is such as to foster their development within the ranks of the undergraduate and graduate body, the situation admits of defeat. Great benefit is obviously derived from collected outside talent, but greater benefit would accrue from creating at least some few of the giants by from within. Aside from the patently mechanized deficiencies...
...where young native artists could gain operatic experience even if they happened to be named Smith or Jones or Johnson. Having sung patiently and courteously with such novices as Mary Lewis and Grace Moore, Manager Johnson wisely promised that young aspirants would have a chance to attain a "natural growth" in a supplementary season. Said he: "I feel that the American artist has never been properly presented. If he has been accepted by the Metropolitan, he has been obliged to sing on the same stage with the greatest artists in the world who have poise and authority...
...above certain facts may be realized which are of importance to a man contemplating work in the field of Art. First of all, this field offers but little chance for great financial gain. Secondly, it is a field in which there is greater competition every year without corresponding growth. Thirdly, that this competition is rarely on the basis of scholarship as much as it is on the personal adaptability of the individual to the problem. Finally, it rarely offers either the advantage of a business, i.e., possibility of eventual financial gain, or the freedom for pure intellectual pursuits...
...Argonaut simultaneously performed a miraculous journalistic somersault. The paper which had hailed Governor Merriam last autumn as "a symbol of strength, progress and stability of traditional growth" now declared: "Would Upton Sinclair have done worse in the gubernatorial chair than the man who defeated him? It may well be doubted. He might even have done better, for he has an atom or two of genius in his composition while all one can discern in Merriam is cobwebs from an empty skull. Heaven help us before we perish from the folly of having chosen such a man as Governor...