Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wanted their Irak oil at once. King Feisal, too, wanted his oil royalties, the chief prop of his State's income. Soon afterward Britain ended its mandate over Irak and gave Feisal his kingdom free and clear, with full membership in the League of Nations. Feisal began to develop plans to use his oil royalties to irrigate Irak and change it from a pocked desert land to its oldtime Garden of Eden state...
...months at home, three-year-old Johnny Woods was last week behaving little better than his twin brother Jimmy, whom their father called a "mug." This was news because Johnny almost from birth had undergone special training at Manhattan's Medical Center whereas Jimmy had been allowed to develop like any ordinary child. As a result when the twins were sent home for good, "conditioned" Johnny was a fearless little acrobat with a personality far in advance of his years and "unconditioned"' Jimmy was just a plain laughing, crying, scary youngster (TIME, July 30). Last week Dr. Myrtle...
...must develop special orientation seminars in government, economics and allied subjects for men as mature as our graduate students so that the technical man, when he enters a government position, will be ready for the social responsibility that he may soon encounter...
...other half of the problem is to develop certain new programs within the social sciences,-programs of graduate work which will cover a somewhat broader field than has been usual in the past and provide a training for the many non-technical positions in governmental service...
...present film begins, Miss Harding is discovered reading dejectly in the Housewives' Club of a London suburb, while the April rain drizzles outside. Upon finding a certain notice in the paper, she and a kindred spirit at the club develop an April hankering that is the reverse of Mr. Browning's-Oh, to be in Italy! For a few pounds they can rent a fabulous little castle on the Mediterranean. There is a thrifty counting of shillings, and at length an ecstatic leavetaking of foggy streets and captious husbands. Two noble ladies have been corralled to join them...