Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...began to make heavy water and experiment with it. Heavy water was found to kill guppy fish, tadpoles, flatworms. Dean Lewis reported that tobacco seeds immersed in it failed to sprout. He gave some to a mouse, watched the creature prance tipsily about its cage, lick the glass walls, develop a great thirst. Heavy water in low concentrations (but higher than in ordinary water) was found in the sap and wood of willow trees, in the Dead Sea, in Great Salt Lake. European experimenters dissolved sugar crystals in heavy water, recrystallized them by evaporation, found that the sugar molecules...
...since 1931 fell off over 50% to $926,000. Last week, after four years of Depression deficits, Rolls-Royce hit upon a brand new idea. President John S. Inskip put on display in Manhattan a hybrid 'luxury" car, the Brewster "Cabriolet de Ville," with which he hoped to develop a new market. It had a Brewster body, a Ford chassis, a Ford V-8 engine. Price: $3,500. President Inskip had wangled a contract out of Henry Ford to supply engines and chassis in bulk. At the Springfield, Mass. plant of Brewster & Co. Inc., onetime famed carriage makers...
...testing and germinating center for a new thought and new facts and as an instrument for carrying over from one generation to the next some of the accumulated information that is in the world's possession. The Stanford trust permits unusual freedom. The aim of the Founders was to develop a " University of high degree...
...hoggish gunners began to appear in his cartoons. He joined Iowa's Fish & Game Commission, became president of its Conservation Commission. Three years ago he helped launch a 25-year plan for restoring Iowa's game, gave Iowa State College $9,000 from his own pocket to develop it. At a rough & tumble hearing in Washington last autumn "Ding's" tongue, agile and stinging as his pen, nearly carried the day for duck protectionists against an overwhelming number of non-protectionists led by hard-driving President Thomas Hambly Beck of P. F. Collier & Son Co. Few months...
...study of the violin, followed, when he was ten, by the piano. When a football accident made him an invalid for four years he improved his voice. At 19 he began five years of study under Tanara. After a season of concert work, he had William Brady develop his voice for three years more. He made his debut in 1929 as Tonio. the clown in Pagliacci. His fine full baritone made him a favorite in Chicago where he sang with Samuel Insull's Civic Opera Company for five seasons. As his operatic fame increased, Robert Ringling began to show...