Word: develope
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enemies de Valera and Cosgrave are both devout Catholics. United by Rome, they knelt together at a solemn votive mass in St. Mary's, Dublin's procathedral, before starting their battle in Dublin's parliament. Sarcastically Battler Cosgrave said, "We will give President de Valera every opportunity to develop his policies. We don't want to hear his explanations of policy?we want to see what he is going...
...clique of thieves in India have in their throats pouches in which they hide small but precious loot. Pressed into military service, such pouched thieves serve as carriers of small documents. They develop their throat pouches by partially swallowing a pellet tied to a string. The training begins in childhood, continues for years with a bigger and bigger pellet, until a useful pouch takes shape...
Honest people sometimes develop throat pouches. The gullet muscles weaken, sag. Such diverticula may be very annoying. They interfere with eating. Food catches in them like waste in the trap of a sink, ferments and sends up fetid odors...
...conformity to Harvard individualism, English 28 has not only the general--and unusually irremediable--faults inherent in all survey courses, but a few peculiar to it alone. Once a pure review of the History of English literature, the course now also attempts to foster literary appreciation and to develop a critical sense. This broadened scope, theoretically admirable, has led to a confusion which defeats the purpose of the course. The lectures have little continuity nor is there any correlation between them and section work. The material treated in the various sections, moreover, differs so widely that the course is good...
Because of this Dunster has rightly been criticized by many as not performing the true functions of a House, as furnishing merely pleasant dormitory life. It has been the policy of the Master to allow all things to develop of themselves, to have undergraduates take the initiative in all House activities. This practice, admirable on the whole, has undoubtedly been carried too far, and Dunster has missed many opportunities for excellent House social functions. What members of the House have done they have done well. An economic society has been formed and a discussion group, whose purpose...