Word: develope
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taste. The mayor of Boston is a victim of the immature group that produced the Lampoon. In their childishness they have been cruel. With the conceit of callow youth, the editors have done a thing which they will recall with a sense of shame when, and if, their brains develop to the adult state...
...delegates to the London parley. The Naval Affairs Committee, under the nervous leadership of Maine's Senator Hale, conducted hearings in an atmosphere hostile to the agreement which was, under the Senate rules, none of its official business. Senator Hale, a big Navy man, did everything possible to develop the worst features of the treaty as a means of drumming up public opposition to its restrictive provisions...
...finds the brotherhoods flabby-muscled, fatheaded, sunk like the Ku Klux Klan in babbittry, bigotry. Wrote he: "The secret societies of a generation ago had for object the freedom of Ireland. There was good reason, too, for their being secret. "All small nationalties submerged in great empires tend to develop a subterranean political life. It is impossible to fight great battles openly, and the very character of their ideals makes open propaganda difficult. Whatever may be said against the secret societies of a generation ago, their members were not self-seeking and their ideals were defensible. "There has been...
Marine. When the Government, after the War, disposed of its stock of Cadillac engines, many found their way into boats. Last week Cadillac's Lawrence P. Fisher announced the company will develop a special form of V-type motor for this use, previously not encouraged. At the same time he said: "Since the General Motors Corporation entered aviation we have been assisting in the development of airplane engines, and in all probability we will engage in their manufacture as a matter of course...
Stokowski has permitted himself to develop prima donna tendencies but the public at large continues to encourage them -perhaps because, like a shrewd prima donna, he has stayed picturesque: preserved his figure by exercise and a strict raw-vegetable diet, his fluffy golden hair by washing it every day himself. He is (with Boston's Koussevitzky a close second) the best-groomed conductor in the U. S., although it has often pleased him to shock fastidious gatherings by appearing in golf clothes. In public places it takes him an impressive length of time to remove his coat and arrange...