Word: develop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that these ideas didn't make a force of unity before the war. What ground have we to think they will after? Freedom of speech is a deceptive concept, not positive at all. It can be used as easily to defend the lack of an ideal as to develop the form of a way of life. Unless it is used in the second sense, it is weakening and destructive, as we have seen...
...nine years he has coached the Buffaloes, Al Baggett has never had a starting line-up that averaged less than 6 ft. 3. "It takes three times as much work to develop a tall player as it does a short one," says he, "but when you've finished you have something." Already branded for next year's freshman team...
Even when thus counteracted, torque is bothersome because displaced ailerons and rudders are not as efficient or powerful as controls in normal position. Contrarotating propellers develop two self-canceling torques and, in pursuit planes, increase the maneuverability vital in dogfighting...
Although most of the soldiers recovered without trouble, some may suffer aftereffects. Those with bits of metal left in their brains are liable to develop epilepsy about six months after injury. As a precaution, all victims of brain wounds were given a year's supply of. drugs to prevent fits...
...outdoor show people, the 'carnies,' who travel from town to town with carnivals." Ferocious Mr. Rogers and suave Mr. Dufour work their clients after the classical manner of detective teams, one rubber-hosing, the other soft-soaping. One of the more lucrative of their develop ments is the Aboriginal Village, on which the "nut" (overhead) is small "once the concessionaire has learned the fact, unreported by anthropologists, that all primitive peoples exist by preference on a diet of hamburger steak." Still more reliable are freaks, the more nauseating the better. At Flushing their most stunning attractions were...