Word: expand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...larger than France and Italy together and lying just north of China proper, voiced a program for the future with virile firmness: "I want our people to concentrate on the development of Manchuria and look to ourselves, not outward, for development. There is no need of our seeking to expand now or encroach on other parts of China...
...opposed to expansion. . . . We may even from time to time expand by the absorption of other desirable companies. We will expand in any way that will enable us to best serve the public and win its favor...
...moisture of the nasal passages. Sharp-edged, insoluble, they penetrate the lungs, enter the cells. The crowded cells clump together. In an effort to protect the body, fibres begin to grow around the "clumps." Gradually the lungs choke up with the tough fibrous growth, the chest becomes rigid, cannot expand; breathing becomes difficult; tubercle baccilli find a rich, fertile breeding ground; the rock driller dies of silicosis, tuberculosis, or both...
Skyrockets were familiar things to Herr von Opel's audience. You light the fuse, the powder burns, the gases expand so rapidly that they push the rocket up through the air in a screeching arc. But could an automobile be substituted for the stock of a skyrocket and pushed along the ground by posterior expansion? Herr von Opel would show them...
Backed by many a rich man, the Anti-Saloon League fostered Prohibition. Backed by a few libertarians, the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment was founded to alter Prohibition. Last winter the A. A. P. A. announced that it would expand and grow potent under the leadership of a new chief, Major Henry Hastings Curran of Manhattan (TIME...