Word: expand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Where indeed? Author Bakeless, scanning well the entire globe, presents a dispassionate exposition of the expansion problems of Japan, Italy and Germany, etc., which deserves cogitation. Will or will not the 300-odd humans on every square mile of German and Italian soil inevitably expand into the relative vacuum represented by France with only 184 human atoms per square mile? When the fighting Japanese atoms finally burst from Nippon, will they erupt by sea or land? If by land, into Russia or China? If by sea, into Australia of the U. S.? With what chances of success...
...keynote of the A. N. P. A. business sessions was?like all current U. S. keynotes?expansion of facilities, extension of functions. To expand, to extend, to go on making money, the publishers felt that they must get certain matters adjusted. They protested loudly, as usual, that postal rates were extortionate. They hinted that advertising rates were too low. They declared that the public must be aroused to the pulpwood shortage with which they, the publishers, might soon be faced...
...Willard was elected last week, after twelve years on the Johns Hopkins board and three years as mainspring of a committee that has raised some six millions to expand and endow the Johns Hopkins hospital and medi-cal school. Now he will be, with President Goodnow, the mainspring by which Johns Hopkins means to eliminate its elementary instruction, reorganize itself on its original lines of advanced and research work (TIME, March 8) and raise six more millions to finance the change...
...another ever since the Armistice. Inquiring into the causes of wars in general, Mr. Bakeless asserts that a complex chain of economic forces makes war almost inevitable in the modern world. "The general increase in population," he writes, "in almost every portion of the globe compels all nations to expand and thus inevitably brings them into collision with one another. Increase of population forces nations to seek colonies overseas...to become industrial instead of agricultural and then...once industrialism is accomplished, the industrial states face the new necessity of looking abroad for safe and secure resources of food supplies...
...morning promises to put me in precisely to put me in precisely the right mood for the preciositer of student verse. So, at 2 o'clock, I intend to expand genially in Sever 5 while Mr. Hillyer reviews the work which the virtuozl of the college have contributed for English...