Word: develop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little incentive and virtually no leadership, and student guidance programs were unknown. Equally important, but less fundamental points concerned antiquated teaching methods, obsolete texts, the lack of adequate vocational training, hazardous, airless buildings, foul sanitary systems, poor medical facilities, and a short twenty-minute lunch period designed to develop a race of jack rabbits with east iron stomachs...
...experimental orders had been nipped by lack of cash. Northrop Aircraft wheeled out one experimental ship this week, a jet-propelled Flying Wing. But President Jack Northrop said that the Air Force had had to shelve a 600-m.p.h. 4,000-mile-range guided missile which could have been developed in three years, and substitute one that would go 1,400 m.p.h. but would probably take six to ten years to develop...
Although the Hygiene Department is reluctant to speed undergraduates on their way to the infirmary, it is well equipped to handle any epidemic that might develop...
...Chairman Philip D. Reed, ex-Under Secretary of State Joseph C. Grew and Admiral William F. Halsey. They will raise $1,000,000 in capital to form the Liberia Co., jointly owned with the Liberian Government. This company, in turn, will form up to 20 different subsidiaries to develop Liberia's iron ore, cocoa, lumber and other resources...
...Henry Wallace is a modern Socratic "gadfly" stirring Americans to reconsider their hastily accepted attitudes, he, like Socrates, calls as well for practical action to develop a progressive social policy. For those who argue about the validity of a position in political affairs, a point arises where concrete action becomes necessary-that is, there is a close relationship between political theory and practical politics...