Word: growth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...upright was made, Mr. Koehler was positive, from a missing plank in Hauptmann's attic floor. Old nail holes in the upright fitted perfectly into place over the attic floor joists. Its growth rings matched an adjoining floor plank...
Professor Frederick Tilney, brain specialist who is overseeing the training of the twins, sees in the accomplishments of Florie and Margie, Johnny and Jimmy continuation of his observations on nerve growth. A baby is not born with a fully developed brain or with nerves fully developed to carry messages from the out-side world to the brain. As the brain and nerves ripen, the infant becomes able to learn more & more useful things...
...often as it wants to in order to develop its sensory experience. But to let your two-year-old child, who doesn't need that type of sensory experience, pull out and push in a bureau drawer just because it wants to, is downright damaging to his growth...
...historical" approach to law study, will deal with the system of law training now used at Columbia, and discuss its advantages. Law instruction at Columbia, he maintains, is given from the point of view of practical relations with clients, whereas at Harvard, too much stress is placed on the growth of principles from the past. Following Professor Llewellyn's address, Professor Chafee will comment on his remarks...
...time. Certainly these advantages cannot be brushed aside lightly. In certain phases of history, in a study of the history of literature, in philosophy, and in the history of science a reading knowledge of Latin or Greek would be a valuable asset to a student interested in the growth of ideas on these subjects. The fact that some students, however few, may find a knowledge of the Classics worthwhile, if not essential, should be reason enough to allow such a knowledge to fulfill the language requirements...