Word: growing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schedule was reached Generalissimo Smoot and Field Marshal Simmons had an acrimonious dispute. The Field Marshal, red in the face, waved his arms and cried: "The Senator from Utah knows nothing about beans!" Glaring down scornfully upon his opponent across the aisle, the Generalissimo snarled back: "Beans! Beans! We grow better beans in Utah than they do in North Carolina?or anywhere else in the world...
...children of today may grow up to witness the magnificent spectacle of a metropolis uprooted overnight with all its residents mad, dead or chemically diseased by next morning. This will be the next World War. How, when, why will it start...
...particular field. His interest in that work is greatly stimulated. When undergraduates and professors are associated in a like activity their intimacy is inevitable; and this in turn leads to a common intellectual interest and a common place of work. Here may be found an atmosphere where minds may grow, and, "by attrition," to repeat President Lowell's words, "provoke one another." Daily Californian...
...college ought to be the most interesting place in the world, and should not be divided into student interests and faculty requirements. If we could unify the whole college life all the studies would naturally grow out of student interests. It would not be a preparation for after-college life, but an attempt to get the full meaning of life as it goes on all around us. History, literature, and philosophy would be sought as interpretations of this life...
...Vagabond every now and then forsakes his busy life of lectures and adventures to join the ranks of those who live in fancy. If perchance, his own dreams grow dull and old there are always those of others who have captured visions and made literature. It is to one of those glorious dreams of beauty and splendor that The Vagabond turns this noon when he attends Professor Lowes' lecture on "Kubla Khan and Charitable" in New Fogg Other lectures...