Word: growning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...motion he had long advocated in the House of Commons become law, and only this present year the French Senate changed its opinion on the matter several times. Like all new ideas it was difficult to grasp. Farmers could not see how cows could be milked or wheat grown if the clock were altered and mothers could not understand how it would be possible to get their babies to sleep. This antagonism to new ideas is not new. The conception of a non-stationary engine was impossibly difficult to the physicist of the early days of the steam engine, while...
...from the amazing triumph of her first New York season, and during the closing weeks of opera in Vienna that Spring sang once more alongside of her old companion star, Piccaver. There was trouble now. The tenor held that the soprano, madly flushed with her New York success, had grown haughty and overbearing. She adopted the grand manner with the other singers, assumed dictatorship over the management of the company, called off rehearsals at her whim, delayed beginnings of performances, made the length of intermissions suit her pleasure. There were disputes between prima donna and tenor. But no open scandal...
...reflects a twelve-month of great prosperity. The Company's total assets are now $597,339,236 compared with $409,820,133 a year ago; its cash is (including good-will and trade marks) $230,000,000 against $145,000,000 last year; its surplus has grown from $289,000,000 to $414,000,000. In addition, a reserve of $62,000,000 has been set up for plant depreciation...
Over the past decade, the Southern cotton mills have grown rapidly in proportion to the older New England industry. Under existing conditions many advantages to the South lay in this steadily growing competition. The Southern mills were nearer the raw material; cheaper and more tractable mill sites and more American labor are to be had there, too. In addition, the laxer laws as to child labor, which is a large factor in the low-grade spinning industry especially, are more lax South than North of the Mason and Dixon line...
...article on The Sainthood of Marcus Aurelius, which is unstoicly ecstatic; a reconciliation of Judaism to European culture; a discussion of Miracle in the Old Testament; Ita de Trinitate Sentiat, which means that one is a trinitarian because one feels it; an article showing that Theologue Butler has not grown stale; contributions by Prof. Estlin Carpenter and Sir Oliver Lodge...