Word: outgrowths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Outgrowth of Lowell Foundation...
...from Chicago, in 1936, that Benny Goodman turned swing music loose on the U.S., set millions of jitterbugs cutting their first rugs. The swing of which he became "King" was an inevitable commercial outgrowth of an earlier music-jazz, which drifted up the Mississippi from New Orleans in the '20s. By coincidence jazz, too, completed a cycle this week, and in Chicago. Some of the pioneer Chicago jazzmen whom reverent connoisseurs know as the "Austin High School Gang"-although few of them actually went there to school-assembled in their native city for the first time in many...
This development at the Business School of additional R.O.T.C. training for Quartermaster Corps Officers is a natural outgrowth of the School's experience in working with Army and Navy during the last 24 years. The School first began training reserve officers in supply work during the World War. Since 1924 over 200 regular Army and Navy officers have been assigned to the School to take the two-year graduate course at government expense. Each year members of the Business School's Faculty have lectured before the student body of regular officers at the Army Industrial College in Washington...
This official Board is the outgrowth of the Radio Policy Committee appointed last year by President Conant to discuss questions involved in the use of radio by agencies of Harvard University, which was headed by John C. Baker, then Acting Dean...
...this century who seem to have a comparable earnestness [to 16th-Century Reformers Luther, Calvin, Knox] are such men as Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler.*... I am inclined to agree with [British Historian Richard Henry] Tawney and [the late German Economist Max] Weber that capitalism is a rather natural outgrowth of Protestantism; arid I would go farther in saying that socialism, communism and fascism are in turn rather natural developments from capitalism. Spiritually, they are all much alike. Capitalism . . . today commands a material type of religious fervor ... as unreasonable, dogmatic, and theoretical as any long established theology...