Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Surgeons and the Medical Directors of Civil Service Commissions when they convened in Manhattan last week. Dr. Samuel B. Hadden, associate neurologist of the Philadelphia Department of Public Safety, reminded his associates that inflammation of the brain is a frequent cause of children's misdemeanors, that they often develop anti-social tendencies and lose their sense of responsibility, with little or no impairment of their other mental faculties. Such children may develop into "master criminals." Dr. Hadden advised that they be sent to special training schools, but not to asylums...
...that leisurely atmosphere so necessary to sound progress. The company will be unlimited in its scope in aeronautics. In other words we shall be interested both in engines for aircraft and in aircraft themselves," said Researcher Lawrance. To Mr. Lawrance, famed as the man who has done most to develop air-cooled engines and as father of the Wright Whirl wind, the new arrangement is really a return to laboratory and workbench. As a youngster at Groton, school for rich men's sons, Charlie Lawrance neglected his language classes in favor of mathematics, started building an automobile...
...April, as part of the present $4,000,- ooo investment to develop Saratoga as a State-owned park and health centre, the New York Legislature voted an additional million for a huge central drinking hall, pump room and bath house. The scheme was wangled by two fervent Saratogoers, Bernard Mannes Baruch and George Foster Peabody. Joseph Henry Freedlander was appointed architect...
...know at once that it is a neon light sign. Although effective as displays, these lights are expensive because of the high voltages necessary to start them glowing. Last week Raymond R. Machlett, 30, Manhattan electrical engineer who, when he was 26, was one of the first to develop a commercially satisfactory Neon tube, announced that by altering the construction slightly, he had been able to light a neon lamp with a 220-volt current, the ordinary household voltage. Present tubes require a 10,000-volt current, expensively stepped-up from service current by transformers...
...Angela Gianelli, an able pianist; Louis Jr., 12, also studying the piano; Rolf, 10, who shows marked talent for the violin. Since the spectacular success of his prodigies he has been besieged by parents, some with precocious, some with backward children. He is ignorantly supposed to be able to develop genius even where it does not exist. Like Auer, he employs simple methods, plays to his pupils a great deal, is at the same time careful not to stifle their individuality. Like Auer his dominant traits are sweetness and a gentle, kindly humor. Like Josef Hofmann, Albert Spalding, Mischa Elman...