Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern reincarnation of the oldtime medicine show "doctor." The therapeutic qualities he first discovered in his cigaret program ("Get a Lift With a Camel") are now to be noted in tea. If the $500,000 test campaign shows results after a year, Mr. Esty confidently expects to develop a tea account which will run into major money...
...dean called attention to the opportunity which exists at Harvard to develop centers of sanitary engineering, applied mechanics, and high-voltage engineering...
...contemporaries. Then, in 1881, the artist went to England for two summers, began the paintings of fishermen, ships and waves by which he is now best remembered. On his return he joined his family at Prout's Neck, Me., a village which his father was trying to develop as a summer resort. Always chary of company, Winslow Homer now became practically a hermit...
...calls "treatments." Having declared himself "immune to blondes," he was taken in hand by two riotous brunettes, Writer Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and Cinemactress Paulette Goddard, became the season's socialion. Called upon for a speech, he dodged: "Hollywood leaves me speechless," sat down. Later he developed a pat speech praising technical develop ments in U. S. cinema. Up to last week Author Wells firmly preserved the appearance of a pleasant, reserved, phlegmatic Briton. Last week, ready to leave the U. S., h.e was asked to pose for news-cameramen. Gaily borrowing a camera, he stuck a press...
Brain Power & Age. Frank Nugent Freeman of the University of Chicago stated: "Bright children do not develop much faster than average or dull children, nor do they continue their mental growth to a later age, as is commonly believed...