Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canal vulnerable or invulnerable or the battleship a Gibraltar or not, was certainly not the purpose of the Office of Naval Operations, which set the problem. The Navy's tactical and strategic exercises, staged almost monthly, are shaped to a more practical end. Their objective is not to develop some grand strategy for the next war but to whet the minds and strengthen the bodies of Navy personnel, to indicate the condition of material, the efficiency of its operation. When, sometime next month, the Chief of Naval Operations receives reports on Exercise M, he will collate them, then subdivide...
THIS little book is a collection of three essays first published between the years 1915 and 1927. The last two merely develop and claborate the contral thesis introduced in the first, "America's Coming-Of-Age." In the first year of the war Mr. Brooks found the United States still in Knicker-bockers, although tall for its ago. The present year of grace, by his standards, would mark America's first long trousors, while still enjoying the adolescentpains of adjustment and still, perhaps, in a state of arrested development, Certainly America, still by Mr. Brook's standards...
...more carefully prepared for him than we are. There is something hectic about the atmosphere we find ourselves in, and we get uneasy. But this is an impressive story; even if it is a little feverish, it has power and authoriticity, and Mr. Ferris should, with more practice, develop his already considerable technical ability and talent...
...Moore's criticism of Hardy disappointing. He has a good subject, and he could have made out of it either an amusing character study or a serious piece of literary criticism. Unfortunately be has done neither. He does not stick close enough to his main points, nor does he develop his ideas as fully as they deserve; the result is that his essay stagnates; it never comes to life. This is not true of the other critical work in this issue, the book reviews. These are on the whole, excellent. Mr. Stanford's criticism of the poems of 1000 winters...
With a pension from the Telegraph, Percy Bullen last week looked forward with relish to being able to "develop the lost art of thinking" on his Ossining, N. Y. farm...