Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...intelligence and the intellectual integrity of the average American university student. As a matter of fact, few intelligent youngsters are worth their salt if they have not, at some stage of their education, passed through a phase of doubt and questioning. It is a healthy sign of intellectual growth to seek to know the whys of our present system--even when this is accompanied by the frequent question "Why not otherwise...
...liver concentrate a month. The concentrate costs $1.17 a dose, not counting the doctor's bill. Dr. William Parry Murphy of Boston, who won one-third of a Nobel Prize for his discoveries concerning pernicious anemia, last week stressed the little known point that liver also stimulates the growth of white blood corpuscles. Therefore, said he, liver concentrate can be used to advantage to fight pneumonia and other infections...
...Rate of Growth. If the first child in a family grows rapidly, all following children will most probably do likewise. Rate of growth is a matter of heredity.-Dr. Franz Boas, of Manhattan...
...been fortunately free of the alumni who view their college as an athletic club, as an escape. But whether it be athletics, or college tradition, many an alumnus becomes so blindly loyal to his college that he desires to see it prosper at the expense of its intellectual growth or its contribution to society. It is this tendency to make college the end, rather than to twined his horizons so that he may gain an understanding of the relationship which his college should have to his social life, that contributes to the present inadequacy of the liberal arts college...
...important reason is that the New England textile cities, building upon the growth of their industry, have an overhead which necessitates a forty dollar tax rate. As the competition of southern mills, unhampered by heavy taxes, made itself felt, northern taxable values declined as mills closed or moved out. Since the tax rate was already as high as was practicable, municipal expenses had to be reduced accordingly, and over since have been chasing down after valuations. But municipal debt burdens will decrease slowly, while relief expenditures will increase as years go on. No new industry can take advantage...