Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these spring practice sessions, which begin on April 23 after spring football is over, Coach Fesler expects to be able to develop a team that will be used to working together when the season opens. The practice sessions will last four weeks, and will be for the returning members of the Varsity and Junior Varsity squads, and for members of this year's Freshman team...
Bluntly the Admiralty replied: "Service rations now include herring, kippers and bloaters. The average sailor prefers meat. If the fishing industry desires to develop consumption of fish it should conduct an advertising campaign among British sailors...
...trembling lest any other green-eyed dragon should possess herself of these territories, there is the material satisfaction that if they attempted to do so, the United States would not have to go to war on the other side of the Pacific about the situation. Japanese capital will undoubtedly develop Philippine markets in the future, and the islands will turn more and more towards that nation. But what is meat for Japan is not necessarily meat for us, and the loss of the Philippines will certainly prove justifiable economically by the stimulation it will give to our own sugar production...
Academic interests compete with many others for the attention of the average student. A man whose enthusiasm for pure learning is too weak to call forth his best efforts may develop something approaching a real intellectual passion if the things he studies in from undergraduates. Festering in their cocoons of red tape, the magnifies of the Bursar's Office have managed to concoct a truly astounding college seem of real consequence and bearing on the problems of the day. Any college which fails to take advantage of this opportunity of arousing the interest of its students is doing less than...
...subsided, Columbia Gas & Electric Corp. had become allied with the Morgan-Bonbright-Drexel utilities, had (through an affiliate) connected its 29,000-mi. Midwest system with the Texas Panhandle. That year (1931) it earned $22,331,000. The next year it formed a joint company with the Rockefellers to develop gas fields in north central Pennsylvania and western New York. But Columbia Gas had bank loans of $43,500,000, mostly the result of its expansion. The demand for natural gas had already fallen off when Columbia's President Philip Green Gossler set out to pay his debts...