Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ideal size. With that number it will be easy for everyone to know all his housemates, and for congeniality to result. It is naturally impossible, and undesirable, for all to be intimate with each other. Such an idea is absurd. Smaller groups of intimate friends within the Quad will develop, which is for the best, and wholly natural...
...contrast to the brilliant life of the planter was the existence of the Negro slaves. Poverty and filth were their constant lot, ignorance, their heritage. Nothing was done for their comfort. Fear that family ties might develop too strongly caused the planters to separate fathers and sons, husbands and wives...
...annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges, its president urged that the college should strive to develop leaders in peace as well as in war, and pointed to the training in sciences and in fields of economics as tending rather towards the latter...
...group of Harvard undergraduates, reported to be in dire distress financially through the collapse of the stock market last fall, have placed on sale on Harvard Square a novelty which, as one of its admittedly ingenious authors said last night, "should develop into the biggest and most hilarious fad of 1930". This novelty, which may or may not find a market among Harvard students, is a card bearing in an appropriately apologetic form, a list of social sins...
Privy Fuel. Into underground tanks, similar to his up-to-date farm privy, let the farmer dump his field debris-straw, stalks, husks. They will ferment and produce methane (marsh) gas. Twenty pounds of pulped debris will develop 100 cu. ft. of gas, enough to light and heat the average farm house for a day. Corn stalks from 40 acres will give a winter's supply of gas. After the gas is exhausted the sediment in the tank can be purified and made into paper.-Illinois' Arthur Moses Buswell...