Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proceeded apace. A blustery, headline-hunter when he came out of Orange County, Texas, Chairman Dies is still hunting news space ("The only thing that counts in these investigations is what gets in the papers"). But last week he revealed an understanding that Reds and Nazis do not just grow out of thin air. Said he, projecting an ambitious new line of inquiry. "I want to give the nation a graphic picture of the deplorable conditions that breed Communism and Fascism...
...Germany on the one hand and the Italian Empire in the Mediterranean and Japan in the Far East on the other hand. Soviet Russia has recently also joined the ranks of the States that are friendly toward Germany . . . and there is every reason to hope that this friendship will grow still closer...
Since this is so, Harvard needs more--in some cases better--teachers. President Eliot once said that "two kinds of men make good teachers--young men and men who never grow old." Applied to presentday academic ranks, this means more tutors, more permanent appointees with a youthful outlook and personality. And it seems this type of teacher is most frequently found in the "middle group." Since the University chose to adopt a long run attitude towards promotions among the faculty, it would do well to consider the effects of its policy on the modern source of Harvard's greatness...
...especially his New York (whose results, after all, don't count in the official survey) and concentrate on four years of hard study. The higher ranking the student, the greater chance for children. Let the midnight oil flow, let the pages of Aristotle turn, and the Princeton boy will grow to manhood and become the apple of the census-taker...
...sure them on their voyages at a reasonable rate. . . . We hope . . . that by the end of October we shall have three times as many hunting craft at work as we had at the beginning of the war. . . . We hope that our means of putting down this pest will grow continually...