Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practical program of the work of peace is to develop and create appropriate agencies for regular methodical disposal of controversies. . . . We have need steadily to expand their machinery and method. . . . The World Court ... is established and no other court is practicable. It has demonstrated the highest integrity and capacity. . . . Adherence to the Court has been recommended by every one of the U. S. presidents since its inception. No one can challenge the patriotism of these men. They have found no entanglement ... by safeguarded membership...
...scope of the questions before the committee was larger than the Williams case. Assistant Secretary Ingalls denied that the U. S. was behind other powers in fast combat planes, though the Navy has been experimenting steadily with aircraft, seeking to develop a combination of endurance and reliability with speed. Lack of funds has been a constant handicap. The Navy's request for $3,000,000 to carry on aircraft development has been cut down to $2,000,000 per year for three successive years. In 1929 the Navy's air fleet was given $32,089,000. This year...
...most important gift to education." Grace Goodhue Coolidge announced: "Instead of coming together to play games and eat ice cream and cake . . . each guest [at the Eastman birthday party] is to receive a golden anniversary camera and film by means of which he will be able to satisfy and develop his appreciation of the beautiful things of nature...
...paid a local photographer $5 for a lesson in picture-taking. Shortly afterward he found in an English magazine an article on dry photographic plates which obviated the necessity for elaborate preparation just before the picture was snapped. George Eastman worked in the evenings at home to develop a dry plate (glass covered with a sensitized emulsion; of his own. Accomplishing this, he resigned from the bank, started in business for himself...
Each Morgan Corsair is a little bigger, faster, more comfortable than the preceding one. The Corsair IV, which took ten months to build and cost $2,500.000, is 343 ft. long and has oil-burning engines which develop 6,000 h. p. It has the traditional piratical look of Morgan yachts -long, dark, heavy underneath; paler, suaver in the superstructure. Owner's quarters include a stateroom, office, bath, and big cedar closet. There are five staterooms for guests on the starboard side and a pantry, galley, and laundry to port. The Corsair IV is ten feet longer than...