Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these activities the Council only performs the report-making function above reproach. Its administration of undergraduate affairs has been marked by inefficiency which well-considered plans and rules could have avoided. It has failed to develop its function as "safety valve" to the point where it is exerting, the greatest possible benefit to the College and the student body...
...capillaries. To do that, he uses glass tubes one five-thousandth of an inch in diameter which he inserts into the tiny bores of capillaries. The manner in which capillary blood rises in those tubes has thrown a considerable light on how heart disease causes dropsy, how kidney diseases develop, how a bruised eye turns black & blue. For this information the College of Physicians gave Dr. Landis their best prize a gold medal...
While most novelists attempt to develop character, few have realized how effectively the principal actor can tell about himself in the third person. Biographies, even though fictitious, seem to lack vitality and autobiographies, when the narrator is of little consequence in world affairs, are invariably priggish. Percy Marks has happily hit upon a working solution of this dilemma in "A Tree Grown Straight" and, incidentally, has written the best analysis of the problems of our generation...
...casual observer, what could seem more desirable or opportune than the offer of 25 years of peace by Germany? Twenty-five years in which France could develop her industries, encourage foreign trade and if necessary, gather around her a group of willing and eager allies to dispel forever the clouds of war which hover overhead now. And in those twenty-five years, Europe is thinking, what would Germany be doing? She would be rearming, strengthening herself militarily; economically; politically. Ten years and she would leap at the throat of France like a mad yet desperate dog, ready to rend from...
...have nevaire beene to college, but I hav beene kicked out of many schools," continued the dark haired idol of hot-cha movie fans, who was educated in convents both in this country and in her native Mexico. "College dramatics are the ideel place for a boy to develop for the screen...