Word: develop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Line" and organizing to raise money for their church in a highly businesslike manner. Their object was not only to raise $500,000 and present it to the triennial General Convention of their Church next October, but to do something that the Church has never before succeeded in doing-develop a strong organization among its half a million adult males...
...only for the presentation of the library but also for the careful and patient collecting of the actual volumes, many of which are so rare and of such great value. With the aid of this library I feel sure that this great School of Medicine will continue to develop in a worthy fashion medico-legal studies, the field in which you are so interested. By doing this the University will render a notable service to the commonwealth. Your gift and your interest have, therefore, significance for the whole community...
...have frankly, and, in a sense, naturally, sought to obtain men whom they have known and liked, regardless of intellectual considerations. It is apparent that if the House Plan is to be a success, the Houses must be judged by some criterion other than social. For instance, Lowell has developed intellectual prominence, without a brilliant tutoring staff. Adams' strength lies in the fields of history and government, Winthrop's in the bio-chemical sciences Dunster's and Leverett's in economies, Eliot's in history and literature, If each House is permitted to develop its own atmosphere along these lines...
...Biro-Bidjan is an enormously valuable property. Japan would like it. The Russian high command is determined to hold, colonize and develop it, possibly as a great metallurgical centre. Russia moved rapidly to survey the whole vast, 9,920,000-acre territory, forced the population up from 35,000 in 1928 to 50,000, founded two newspapers, one of them in Yiddish, made Yiddish the official language, organized collectives, state farms, village reading rooms and an agricultural college...
When the Arab tribes were bribed to intensify their revolt against Turkey during the War, they were definitely promised a chance to develop either an Arab Confederation or a single Arab Kingdom of their own. Realists well knew that the Allies would not like the idea of a new nation, one third as big as all Europe, blocking the way to India and the East, but the Arabs believed the Wartime promise. So did the mysterious Colonel Lawrence until his disgust at the duplicity of politicians caused him to flee theatrically from the world...