Word: develop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...primary object of this new system is to develop the individual student's work in a pyramid, with a strong foundation of the general field of English literature, and an intricate structure pointing to the particular point in which he is interested. In the past a survey knowledge was sought, with only the honor thesis affording any opportunity for individual expression...
Bill Thurston and Roger Wilson have yet to develop into certain point winners, though they are strong contenders for first-team posts. "Wild Bill" is a good, though rather inconsistent, downhill and slalom racer. Wilson is best in the slalom, but can run a fairly sharp cross country race too. Jack Crawford shows latent cross country possibilities, and since he spends a good deal of time practicing, he may place high in coming meets...
...oily nose drops; 2) nightly doses of mineral oil for constipation; 3) forced feedings of cod-liver or halibut-liver oil to rebellious children. Often the oil slides down the throat into the lungs, where it clogs up air sacs, inflames delicate tissues, forms abscesses and scars. Victims develop a hacking cough, run a low fever. Lipid or oil pneumonia is difficult to diagnose, for few physicians know much about it, and different oils cause different symptoms. In old people oil pneumonia is sometimes mistaken for cancer of the lung. Pneumonia caused by bacteria can be successfully combated with serums...
Concluding that "social habits which develop in response to cultural sanctions cannot be eliminated by sumptuary legislation," he pointed to the complete failure of prohibition in the U. S. as "eloquent testimony of the essentially alcoholic nature of contemporary American culture...
When lipid pneumonia was discovered 15 years ago, doctors believed it was a children's disease. But, said Dr. Cannon last fortnight, "accumulated evidence has proved . . . that it affects all ages. . . . It is now certain that healthy persons may develop severe types of lipid pneumonia, especially if they use medicated liquid petrolatum intranasally in large quantities over long periods of time. . . . Abandonment of this type of medication will be slow because of the fact that so many persons have used oily nose drops with no apparent ill effects...