Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bold scheme of U. S. Director of Aeronautics Vidal for production of a small, cheap ($700) airplane got under way last week when the Public Works Administration allotted $500,000 for its development (TIME, Dec. 18). How his department would use the money, Director Vidal was not ready to say beyond repeating that the Government would not engage in manufacture. Best guess: a new company which would be formed especially to design and develop the "flivver" plane for mass production and in which the whole manufacturing industry would be represented...
...possible, take six or seven years of Latin and five or six years of Greek. Study all the mathematics that you can. Few young men will agree that a cultural knowledge of the classics is important, but such training is invaluable in giving mental discipline. A young man should develop so that he can think along the proper lines...
...small, cheap (perhaps $700) airplane for mass consumption (TIME, Nov. 20). (Substantial rumor: PWA funds to design and develop the plane...
...funds but have also materially reduced the inflow of new ideas on how and where to spend money. Explained President Keppel: "Those from whom ideas in ordinary times might be expected have been overworked and strained and have had neither the time nor the freshness of mind to develop them. . . . All in all the corporation will welcome an opportunity to return to its normal spheres of action and devote to them its entire energies and resources...
These purposes may be classified under three general heads: 1. To develop a technique of thought and study; 2. To throw the student into intimate contact with the personality and learning of a mature mind; 3. To give the student supplementary information in his field. Brief reflection will show that the first two purposes are vastly more important than the third. A student can carry away from college no more valuable acquisition than a method of thought and study. Indeed, it would not be too strong to say that an educational system has succeeded or failed according...