Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loses confidence, judgment, keenness for flying; he is easily discouraged. Aviators are apt to become irritable and must guard carefully against nervous breakdown, etc. etc. Observed the Navy: "Flying is a strange pursuit for man. . . . After [he] has flown as long as he has walked, he may expect to develop the necessary resistance...
...would, indeed, have been quite within the technical abilities of the Romans of Pliny's day to develop the depths of the Mediterranean and to explore its biota, though of course examination of the temperature and salinities of the sea must in any case have awaited the development of the sciences of physics and chemistry as we now know them...
...modern government is that the higher type of individual does not associate himself with it. That college men with their background and training, could do much to raise the tone of politics by entrance into a field which has degenerated is unquestioned. Princeton men could do worse than to develop "a sense of state." --The Daily Princetonian...
...best way to become acquainted with the University in all its phases of activity. The editorial candidates write an editorial each day, while business candidates devote their time to soliciting advertisements and doing a little work in the office, learning the management of the paper. Photographic candidates take, develop, and print pictures of University events...
...while inventories soared from $5,000,000 to $12,000,000. The total profits from 1925-29 under the old system were $69,500,000, an overstatement of $11,000,000. This sum was subtracted from Gillette's surplus, as was $4,600,000 used to develop the much advertised new razor and blade...