Word: growth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave generously of his time and counsel as well of his resources to assist Harvard's growth as a national institution. I can think of no Harvard man of recent years who, as a private citizen, has had such an influence on the life of his times, and certainly none who has done so much for his alma mater...
This greater tale, as you might easily suppose, is the growth of America, particularly as viewed from a country in the midwest. The Civil War here marks the maturing of the man and of the country, and that is only the most generalized cross-reference between plot and history. Every major event in the hero's life occurs, symbolically enough, on a Great Day in American History--Johnny Shawnessy is married (to a girl from the South) on the day John Brown is hanged; his son is born on the first day of the War; his wife goes mad simultaneously...
Walnut Elephants. Most of the growth was promoted without the gaudy hoopla that outsiders associate with Los Angeles. Southern California has its ace barkers, but the businessmen of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce favor blue serge suits more than checked vests...
...million today (v. 132 million in 1940), the U.S. has already hit a total the statisticians did not expect it to reach until the 19503. (The Bureau of the Census, whose population estimate of a year ago has proved 2,000,000 too small, gravely laid the unprecedented wartime growth to "maternity benefits, allotments to dependents . . . and occasional furloughs...
...been expected to reach its population peak of 155-165 million by the end of the century. But the "present surge of births," said the Record, indicates that the peak will actually be from 10 to 25 million higher and the crest of the growth curve has now been pushed beyond the year 2000. In effect, the U.S. economy, which was once regarded by some as "mature," has a long way to grow...