Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This committee, of which Dean C. N. Greenough '98 of the College is chairman, was the outgrowth of the interest aroused in 1922-23 by the series of six lectures under the auspices of the Union designed to help students in their choice of careers. Mr. A. M. White '92, of New York, undertook to raise the money necessary for financing the work and a committee with headquarters in the dean's office was formed. Other members of the committee included four undergraduates, two assistant deans and several other faculty representatives. Several alumni also served on the committee, including...
...activities during an industrial crisis. But Mr. Lee also represents such industries as the Pennsylvania Railroad, Bethlehem Steel Corporation, Copper and Brass Association, and the Standard Oil Company. Mr. Lee began his career as a newspaper reporter in New York City, and his present profession is an outgrowth the from his experience derived in that line of endeavor...
...state of moral degenerateness in which, the Republican party finds itself today is, in my opinion, the outgrowth of policies to which the party has been addicted for the last twenty-five years. The Republican party has been supported very largely by manufacturers who have been many times paid for their financial backing by tariff legislation which has enabled them to charge exorbitant prices to the American consumer, particularly the American farmer. The Fordney tariff Act has increased prices to the American consumer about 4 billion dollars a year--at least 87 per cent or which goes to American manufacturers...
Plastic surgery, largely an outgrowth of the Great War, reached probably its greatest efficiency in American army hospitals. Pioneers on the other side, however, were Major H. D. Gilles, at the Queen's Hospital, Sidcup, who is now in charge at St. Andrew's, and the French surgeon Delageniere, at Val-de-Grace, Paris...
...Attorney General's dictum was apparently an outgrowth of the strong sentiment in the American Bankers' Association last year against branch banking; its alleged purpose was to strengthen the Reserve System. Such legislation is, however, distinctly dangerous to this very purpose, since national banks must compete with state banks, and if state charters allow more latitude than national, existing national banks will convert into state banks, as the Irving has recently done. The privilege of issuing banknotes yields so little profit to a national bank, that its surrender is not a serious consideration...