Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With his good friends the late great Robert Henri and George Wesley Bellows, George Luks began to develop a distinctive style of American painting which, if cautious, at least was no slavish imitation of the great French modernists. After the War, recognized as an important painter, Artist Luks served for four ' years as instructor in painting at the New York Art Students' League. His salty, Rabe laisian speech caused many a faculty eyebrow to rise. But few teachers have been so beloved, have so successfully inspired the students. From 1920 to 1924 he was to the Art Students...
...drive in this idea of the necessity of properly born, trained, educated and healthy moral children to the voters and officials of America-most of our native criminal class are products of city slums. If these children were watched and nurtured a criminal type of child would not develop. . . . We must see that their roots have proper soil to put their precious tendrils into. City children must not be denied grass and flowers, fields and streams-all the imaginative surroundings that are a part of nature. . . . Ten years will see the start of this new generation. We can move swiftly...
...Tisdale opened the series on January 6 with a description of how the teeth and jaws of the very young child develop. Dr. Baker, speaking on January 9, described what the orthodontist can do to prevent the development of crooked teeth and jaws. Dr. Losch today will emphasize the importance of taking care of the baby teeth as a means of preventing more serious trouble in later life. Miss White on Friday will tell what foods should be eaten to build strong teeth and develop the jaws. Dr. Thom on January 20 will talk about habits in young children...
...Yale University, retiring chairman of the Yale Chapter, American Association of University Professors. In the Yale Alumni Weekly, day before the meeting opened in Cleveland, he made known his views: "Nothing could be more disastrous for higher education and learning than for this condition [industrializing of education] to develop to such a point that the American Association of University Professors or other organization should assume the functions of a labor union of teachers. . . . We should urge on our own University . . . on all American Universities, such a re form of university organization that a teachers' guild would be unnecessary...
...department of terrestrial magnetism, read a paper worth $1,000, the annual Association award for outstanding address of the meeting. With three fellow physicists, Drs. L. R. Hafsted and Odd Dahl of Carnegie Institution and Dr. Gregory Breit of New York University, he worked for several years to develop a two-million-volt tube which produces X-rays equivalent to the gamma rays of 182 million dollars worth of radium. Laboratory significance : scientists by using these powerful rays may be able to burst the atom nucleus. Practical significance: X-rays from high voltage tubes resemble cancer-curing gamma rays...