Word: develope
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other recommendation: place the merchant marine under a single responsible head and urge the people to ship in U. S. bottoms; develop the Philippines, economically and do not give them independence until they are better fitted; discharge War debt obligations rapidly; avoid competitive armaments; create a board to deal with radio problems; enact immediately supplementary legislation to enforce Prohibition...
Woodcock said that the demolition of the indoor track that has served to train Yale athletes in the past made it impossible to develop a representative team for the B. A. A. games...
...life. But it does give a thoroughness and accuracy or knowledge which our young people so often lack. I would not be understood to advocate driving out of the American college the extra curricular activities that play so large a part in its life and, no doubt, help to develop the self-reliance and initiative which characterize so many young American college graduates. But I do insist that the college is primarily a place of intellectual appeal in which attention to the serious problems of life should be emphasized and not overshadowed by other activities such as inter-collegiate football...
...kneaded coal for man's better industry, so at Paris last week it plunged into tropical waters and came out dripping with potential electricity. At Paris the medium for science was Thermo-dynamist Georges Claude,* who told the French Academy of Science that it should be possible to develop cheap power from sun-heated tropical waters...
...real Philippine problem is not political but economic. It ever the Filipinos are to be able to stand by themselves, they must develop their enormous potential wealth. Only about 12 per cent, of the area of the islands is under cultivation. Agricultural methods are very primitive. Little has been done to improve them. The soil and climate of the Islands, however, is as good as the best in the fabulously rich Indies. All manner of tropical products can be grown there--rubber, camphor, coffee, tea, cocoa, gutta-percha, cocoanuts. Of these we import each year enormous quantities, but only...