Word: develop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pistol at his head in 1946. Now the pistol was gone, and Persia was sure of U.S. friendship. An emboldened Majlis voted 102-to-2 to declare the Premier's oil negotiations with Russia null & void. The Majlis went on to resolve that Persia would explore and develop her own oil resources, without any foreign assistance. This is not likely to happen...
...Trees. The Atlantic gets 40,000 manuscripts a year and the nine-man staff reads them all. (The G.B.S. piece came in "over the transom"-unsolicited.) Associate Editor Charles W. Morton helps Weeks develop new article ideas. They understand each other so well that conferences are as elliptical as shorthand. (Morton to Weeks: "Atomic bomb-Einstein." Weeks to Morton: "I'll call Swing...
...Michaelmas term at Shawnigan Lake under way, Christopher Lonsdale patted his German Shepherd Judy and pointed a moral: "If I had let Judy run wild and do as she damn wefl pleased as a pup, she'd be a vicious, savage beast today. You can't develop leaders by letting them do as they damn please when they're boys. If nothing else, we're training boys to be less obnoxious...
...Newark will handle all the Metropolitan area's long-haul traffic; Idlewild, which will be opened by July, will handle transatlantic flights, and LaGuardia will be left only domestic, short-haul traffic. The Authority expects to spend $250,000,000 in the next five to seven years to develop the airports...
...technical knowledge but lacking in any practical experience with the social problems undergraduates must face upon graduation is hardly adequate preparation for life. Students will not be able to discharge their responsibilities to the community they live in on theory alone. Settlement House work is one way to develop a genuine social consciousness through actual contact with the underprivileged children and round out an education that otherwise tends to restrict itself to the four corners of a book...