Word: expanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mathematics has a definite place in cultural development,' said Assistant Professor M. Morse in an interview with a CRIMSON reporter yesterday. "The modern conception of culture will expand from that of Mathew Arnold's day, when it was considered a knowledge of the best that had been thought and said, to include broader intellectual activities; in particular a more flexible attitude toward science and philosophy." Professor Morse went on to say that in this country such an expansion would necessitate the recognition of Mathematics in three roles which differ greatly from the popular conception of the subject...
Politicians next day read, blinked. Here was a popular warrior who could and would talk of politics. At what was he aiming? Perhaps they remembered that General Pershing's boom for President in 1923-24 had been mild talk which did not expand much outside of his own state of Nebraska; perhaps, too, they poked into history books to find that he is probably the only U. S. hero-warrior who has not been President or at least a serious candidate for the office.± If Warrior Pershing really has his eye on 1928 (which is doubtful even...
Grave rumors rumbled in the Near East last week, reverberated in the Far East. Turkish Foreign Minister Tewfik Rushdi Bey and Soviet Foreign Minister Georg Valentinovich Tchitcherin met "secretly" at Odessa and discussed there, according to despatches, a Turko-Russian pact which it was allegedly proposed to expand into an "Asiatic League" embracing in addition China, Persia and Afghanistan...
...stories was about a fractious Chinaboy who invented printing, by accident, through getting jam on his father's carvings. Another was of the sea-dwelling Shen (demons) who inundated a great city to expand their province but were later outwitted by the wisest of kings. There was Weng Fu, the wit-wandering beggar who sold himself as a father to an orphan boy in the Street of Wang's Broken Tea Cup near the Seven Thieves Market, and "that lazy Ah Fun" who blew up his honorable father with the bed-stove, broooomp! All these things and many...
...admire your terse, imagination-stirring, Thomas Carlyle style, and generally hand each week's finished copy to some friend telling him I am complimenting his intelligence by giving him the sample. Please do not let success expand TIME'S pocketable size to unwieldy bulk as success did for the Saturday Evening Post...