Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main maneuver. At midnight, Feb. 9, Admiral Clark was to deploy his Scouting Force off the California coast in an attempt to strike through the Navy's first-line defense, the Battle Force. Under every warlike condition except actual fire, he was allowed seven days to develop and execute his strategy...
...matters might develop in a more practical direction was the theme of The Great Pacific War published eight years ago by Hector Bywater, foremost British naval commentator, critic and on-paper strategist. His book makes plausibly exciting reading in 1933, two years after the imaginary struggle was to have started. Declares Author Bywater in his preface...
Said Banker Reynolds in Chicago last week: "I'm going to San Francisco to help develop the town into a still greater money center, just as I have done in Chicago. I'm tired of loafing. After seven months of it I have decided that I can't stand it any longer. It isn't any loafing job or honorary title that I am taking. It is one of the big jobs in the country, no doubt about...
...look upon the tutorial system as the student's major opportunity to overcome his deficiencies and develop his capacities. All students should have the advantage of the tutorial system. The best relation between tutor and student is dissatisfied he should have opportunity to transfer to another tutor, precisely as a patient who is dissatisfied may change his physician...
...primary purpose of the Tutorial System, as I see it is not to discuss course work, prepare for examinations, or study topics outside of the field. It is rather to help the student to discover himself and his aptitudes, overcome deficiencies in past training, coordinate and systematize his studies, develop discrimination, judgement and reasoning capacity, fill in the gaps in his general culture, arouse latent interests, discover the inter-relations of his various fields of study acquire scholarly habits of study learn how to take notes and to use libraries and source material--but primarily to learn to do independent...