Word: develop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this was merely a symptom. Underneath lay a new, realistic conviction that Britain's fate was closely tied to Russia's. Tanks-for-Russia Week was only a beginning. Tanks happened to be Russia's most immediate need, but other needs would develop far faster than the British could satisfy them...
...Almost all lowlanders develop mountain sickness, known as soroche, if they live above 10,000 feet. (When flying at this level, aviators don their oxygen masks.) The severity of soroche varies widely with different individuals: some ruin their hearts; others become acclimatized in 15 or 20 years...
...slogans, "A for eye troubles, B for beriberi, C for scurvy, etc.," are not quite accurate. For specific vitamins do not invariably cure specific diseases; they all work together. Experience has shown that in groups of people deprived of all vitamins for a long period of time, various individuals develop different deficiency diseases. Some do not even have scurvy or pellagra; they develop anemia instead-a disease not ordinarily believed related to vitamin deficiency...
Chief result of the contest was the discovery that individual skills of the undergraduates were highly developed for this early point in the season but that smooth teamwork and coordination was completely lacking. Coach Jim MacDonald attributed this to the fact that last week, the first of practice, was spent chiefly in conditioning drills which did little to develop any cooperation among the players...
...this sort of situation continues to develop in company after company, unions and private managers must either capitulate to make way for permanent government control, or they must come to the conclusion that "further negotiations would not be fruitless...