Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This move is regarded as a logical outgrowth of the plan of giving departmental examinations to every Junior and Senior. With regard to this practice, the creation of a "serious intellectual purpose" in the minds of undergraduates was noted by Yale's president...
...seen from the exhibits that the new architecture is not merely a new garb for an old framework," Bogner said. "The public is hard to convince that modern architecture is not a stylistic venture, like a new model of an automobile or a fashion show, but is the outgrowth of new demands set on buildings as a result of social changes and the technological developments...
Rayonier is an outgrowth of Rainier Pulp & Paper Co., founded in 1926 by Edward Morgan Mills. Newsprint-maker Mills made money ($487,000 in 1929, $760,000 in 1930), and launched two more pulp companies in Washington's "Northwest Corner" before he felt Depression in 1931. That year in the general tumble of newsprint pulp he lost $170,000, thereupon borrowed a top-flight Du Pont chemist named Russell M. Pickens and began experimenting. In 1933, Rainier produced 45,000 tons of "dissolving pulp." By 1935, all three Mills mills were in the business; last year they merged...
Instead of printing maps from the ordinary single-lens camera Bagley, who is a retired Lieutenant-Colonel in the United States Army, and his assistants are utilizing the new multi-lens camera. This camera is the outgrowth of the trilens instrument developed by Colonel Bagley during the war. It was taken by the army and increased to five lens, and is now the Fairchild...
...thus shaded for the victory by Captain Hart, is as brilliantly unorthodox as some of the captain's own theories (he thinks the War's greatest general was T. E. Lawrence). Its history is the most exciting record of men at arms since the Russian Revolution. The outgrowth of one regiment, it owes its present effectiveness to the stress of one battle, the ability of one politician and a handful of generals, three of them Spanish...