Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debates are to be "friendly discussions," it was announced. They are the outgrowth of a meeting of Professor Mather and Dr. Stratton in Cambridge last fall in the Phillips Brooks House when they discussed the question, "Resolved, That the theory of evolution is incompatible with the Christian religion." The debates to be held in May will be a further discussion of this question...
From the West comes the news that the student government body of the University of Oregon seeks to control the editorial policy of the Oregon Emerald, the university daily. This move against the freedom of the Emerald is an outgrowth of editorial criticism directed against the A. S. U. O., whose retaliatory attack takes the form of a proposed undergraduate publications board dominated by the associated students' president. The new board of censorship would pass judgment on all editorial policies of the Emerald, and shelter its sponsor from unwelcome criticism...
Most of the gang members range in age from 9 to 16. Italian boys form their own gangs. Irish, German, Swedish boys run together indiscriminately. Syrians keep to themselves. Porto Ricans will not associate with Negroes, and Brazilians will not associate with Porto Ricans. Racial friction is an outgrowth of ancestral antipathies, since most of the young men's fathers, who are universally engaged in the stevedoring business, do not care to mingle with foreigners...
This test is the outgrowth of the generally admitted fact that at present college pictures may be much improved that they are lacking in realistic perception and interpretation...
...plan proposed for New York, which is an outgrowth of the recent suppression of the plays "Sex", "The Captive" and "The Virgin Man", provides for a board of censors composed of three actors, three producers and three playwrights...