Word: outgrowth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany the youth movement had a long history, antedating the Nazis and intertwined with the land and folklore of the nation. Here in the United States the youth movement, such as it is, is the outgrowth of more recent times, and of economic rather than cultural longings...
...affairs economic has been a disagreement over the issue of war and peace. Anything but eager to duplicate the 1917 performance, generally held--as last June's Commencement Orator phrased it--to "stand condemned by its record," youth has pointed to post-war economic blind-alleys as the direct outgrowth and aftermath of the war itself...
...club did not always have the spacious quarters it now occupies on Forty fourth street. Completed in 1915, the present buildings are the outgrowth of construction began 1895. This was the first Harvard Club house, in fact the first club-house built by the alumni of any American college...
...revised Faculty organization is the outgrowth of lengthy discussion of reports submitted to the Faculty by a special committee headed by Julian L. Coolidge '15, professor of Mathematics, and by the Harvard branches of the American Association of University Professors and the Teachers Union, although it conforms mere closely to the suggestions embodied in the Coolidge committee report than to the alternate plans...
...outgrowth of the administration of the East India Company, the British Civil Service has always drawn intelligent, widely trained graduates of Oxford and Cambridge. Diametrically opposed in principle, the United States has demanded men of highly specific education directly fitted for one particular pigeon hole. The result has been that Britain's public servants as a rule have been men of broad administrative capacities, far-seeing and able; ours, on the other hand, while sometimes competent in their own narrow field, have not possessed the breadth of view necessary to make really useful public officials...