Word: outgrowth
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...situation in Switzerland is the outgrowth of a musical heritage totally lacking in America. Every small city has a conservatory and a symphony orchestra, every house has a piano, and every piano is playing what is still Europe's musical staff of life--Bach...
Says Father Matthews: "It holds just as true in religion as in politics. Any successful new system has got to be an organic outgrowth from the old one. Otherwise the new religion will be only a surface covering that can be taken off like you take off your coat at night. And to make the new religion grow organically out of the old, you've got to know the old inside out. . . . You've got to know the beliefs and customs of a people to know how they can best understand the Christian faith and accept...
Started in 1941 as a radio club outgrowth of Geography 37's course in field communications, W1AF, operating under a Federal Communication Commission license, carried on general amateur traffic, and worked with field expeditions until the war caused termination of its functions...
Considine explained that his Committee, an outgrowth of wide undergraduate sentiment that the Council could be made more democratic, would keep its original pledge not to disband until its suggestions are duly considered by the Council. He reiterated the group's two basic recommendations: to supplant elections-at-large by direct mechanisms and to allot to the basic units of the undergraduate body, the Houses, proportional delegation to the Council...
...equal rights in the campaign. In practice the dice were loaded heavily in favor of the Socialist Unity Party. In private conversations with Germans, Russian officers recently have gone so far as to refer to the Socialist Unity Party as the "Staatspartei" (state party). After all, it is the outgrowth of last Easter's Russian-backed merger of Communists and Social Democrats in the Russian zone and Berlin...