Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cause of the common cold. He said he had seen it under his microscope, a spherical germ occurring in pairs and sometimes in rows. After he had isolated it he tested it out on healthy humans by spraying a culture into their noses. In 24 hours they would develop strong nasal colds. A vaccine made from the culture and injected under their skins "would break up the cold in short order...
Last week scores of delegates converged on Berlin for a World Power Conference, to discuss problems of distribution and utilization of Power manufactured from natural resources. Simultaneously the French Academy of Sciences was discussing in Paris a despatch from one of its members reporting progress on his project to develop Power from an inexhaustible natural resource not yet tapped...
...Importers & Exporters Association urged a veto on the ground that the new tariff rates (highest in U. S. history; an average of 41% ad valorem on all dutiable commodities or 20% above the present law) "will cause ill will and reprisals which will make it impossible for us to develop the export trade necessary to the continued prosperity...
...common elements and underlying principles and to establish continuity between courses in the same field. Again, even with a homogenous group of student in a course of concentration the instructor must not assume the attitude of the specialist. He is teaching for mastery; but he is not endeavoring to develop mathematical prodigies nor biological experts nor classical scholars. He is utilizing the educative values inherent in his subject as stimuli to the increase of intellectual power. He is not making technical details an end in themselves, but is guiding the pupils in the discovery and re-discovery of principles which...
...educative values in this branch of study although I recognize that there is a certain type mind which is not so constituted as to profit largely by these values. But I am speaking here of the student of average ability in this department. Such an individual can hardly develop oral command of a foreign tongue, aside from the stereotyped phrases of classroom and textbook, in the time that is reasonably available for the study and practice of language in the secondary curriculum. (It is another matter with the student who is exceptionally gifted linguistically or who is in contact with...