Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formed a trust bearing her name to consolidate, operate and develop some of her real estate properties which as late as 1931 were valued at $12,000,000. They consisted chiefly of office buildings in the business district, subdivisions at Highland Park Highlands, Edithton (named for her) Beach and a section near Evanston. In 1929 the Trust needed new working capital, had to pay off bank loans. Mrs. McCormick endorsed an $11,000,000 bond issue which was further secured by $18,000,000 worth of securities, chiefly in Standard Oil of New Jersey.* When 15,000 tenants found themselves...
Show Boat does not begin with a noisy medley of the song hits to accompany the customers' march down the aisles, the clatter-bang of seats. Its prelude establishes the play's mood, introduces definite themes, just as Wagner introduced themes in his preludes to develop them later on. The people in Show Boat have characteristic motifs just as Wotan and Siegfried have theirs in the Ring operas. Cap'n Andy Hawks has a light, rollicking phrase all his own. Parthy, his New England wife, has a phrase as shrewish and tart as Actress Edna May Oliver...
...Crowbar Skull. The foreman of a crew of Vermont road builders in 1848 let a charge of explosive detonate prematurely. The explosion drove a crowbar through the left side of his head. He was then 25 lived twelve years and nine months longer, showed no physical impediments, but did develop an abnormal truculence. The museum has a plaster model of his head, and the actual crowbar...
...have more course theses and less hour examinations? The student has an opportunity in the thesis to develop that particular fraction of a course which interests him; in the hour examination he has to answer, with gritted teeth, detailed, and often stupid, questions which he has learned the day before and forgets on the next. From the emphasis placed on these tests rather than the theses, small wonder that epithets sometimes fly freely...
...reasons. Such prestige did his magazine have, so much literary loyalty did its editor inspire, that literati contributed mostly without pay, among them Shaw, Chesterton, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Havelock Ellis, Wyndham Lewis. Editor Orage's special genius lay in discovering new writers, helping them develop themselves. Over 40 famed writers-including Katherine Mansfield, Michael Arlen, Richard Aldington, the Brothers Powys, Rebecca West, Storm Jameson-got their start in his paper...