Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knows that in the long run interest and dividends on international investments must be paid in goods. Consequently, the new debtor-creditor relationships required extensive changes in the flow of goods between nations. For example, they required that Germany which for many years had an excess of imports, suddenly develop a large excess of exports, and that the United States, which for fifty years had had an excess of exports, promptly develop a large excess of imports...
...main difficulty is that there has not been time to develop student leaders who are used to taking responsibility, and who are willing to do so. One of the aims of a university should be to develop traits of this sort in all its students, and if it fails in this, it falls a great deal short of doing its duty. The way to develop students in this way is not to let them give up when sailing is hard...
Organized leadership in the scholastic relationships, of students to their colleges, representative student government, and a reasonable distribution of all social activities of the student group have been minimized in the past. If students are to shoulder their own affairs, they should develop along well-defined lines, which will give them these things which they lack...
...which do not occur with other forms of treatment." His idea is that primary cancers usually throw off stray cells, which drift to distant parts of the body. Radiation probably has nothing to do with the drift. If the patient lived long enough the stray cancer cells would probably develop into secondary cancers. But the primary cancer ordinarily kills the victim before the secondary cancers have time to become annoying. Radiation destroys the primary cancer, prolongs the patient's life until the metastatic, secondary cancers have time to grow and cause their fatal erosions...
...York City public schools have used silent pictures for many years in instructing school children, and hope to develop a series of talking films for this purpose in the near future, after the models applied by the University experimenters in this field to many schools in greater Boston this past week...