Word: develope
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signatories are bound by the Treaty in only two ways. If there should develop between any of them "a controversy arising out of any Pacific question and involving their said rights (in the Pacific) which is not satisfactorily settled by diplomacy", they promise to submit the whole subject to a joint conference of the signatories for "consideration and adjustment." Surely this is no dangerous innovation in American foreign policy. The score or more Bryan arbitration treaties pledge us to almost the same course. It is said that the Senate gave to them, in executive session, its unanimous approval...
This week one hundred and fifty farmers are to sail from New York to take up land grants in Russia amounting to three thousand acres, which they are to develop according to the most approved modern methods in hope of educating the Russian peasant by furnishing a good working example. The group includes a blacksmith, a teacher, a physician, and a tailor, so that the party will make a perfectly self-sufficing village. The project is sponsored by the Society for Technical Aid to Russia. All the members are Russian...
...business life, and partly from a desire to learn a little something,--but not one in ten of us comes from the pure love of knowledge and the desire to so train himself as to extend that knowledge and beautify a world too conscious of its more unpleasant aspects. Develop such a spirit, and America would no longer suffer from a dearth of artistic genius; and could take her place with the older nations at the table of the arts as well as in the factory and scientific laboratory...
Crew opened its 1922 season yesterday under its new director, Dr. Howe. In addressing the candidates be emphasized two purposes of rowing. One, of course, is to have a successful season, the other, to develop the individual and give all men who desire it a chance for exercise. This second purpose always has been one of the great virtues of crew. Every one has a chance: there is room for every one. No sport offers so general an opportunity for exercise and bodily development. Under this new system the individual is to receive even more attention, than in the past...
...majority of the readers of this newspaper are probably not old enough to have seen many great revolutionizing inventions develop from what seemed to be a joke to a great popular necessity. The writer has seen several. He saw the electric are and incandescent light grow from a very doubtful laboratory experiment to a public necessity. He saw the electric street car grow from an impossible nuisance to the universal method of street transportation. He saw the bicycle develop from a great high wheel which required an acrobat to ride, into a popular device which nearly everybody knows...