Word: developed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eliot believes that there is a very good reason for linking horses and bishops. "No culture," he argues, "can appear or develop except in relation to a religion"; nor can any religion survive without the "maintenance of culture." And yet, religion and culture are not identical. A close observer can see both the bond that unites them and the element that separates them in, for instance, the writings of such men as Voltaire and Nietzsche-who contribute to culture by assaulting, and thus recognizing, the presence of the religion that makes their culture cohere...
...Paul Getty closed his big deal with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, for the oil concession in the King's half of the "neutral zone" between Arabia and Kuwait on the Persian Gulf (TIME, Feb. 21). Getty expects to start drilling in a few months, and will develop the zone with the American Independent...
...modern air force must have more than well-proved airplanes. It must have advanced designs that are still being tested, aircraft still in the drawing-board stage, and designs that are still gleams in an air designer's eye. Military aircraft are slow to develop, hard to build; every U.S. Army warplane that played a part in World War II was on the drawing boards before Pearl Harbor...
Like most successful coaches, Adolph Rupp is a painstaking worrier. Although he has recently written a book, Championship Basketball (Prentice-Hall; $3) cautioning against overworking players, he works his own hard. He feeds them vitamin pills, keeps weight charts, advocates squeezing a small rubber ball to develop arm and finger muscles. "There are no secrets in the game," he says with a straight face...
Over $5,000 of the gift will be used to develop a technique of detecting polio by measuring the electricity in a patient's muscles. Dr. Robert S. Schwab '26, instructor in Neurology, and Dr. Arthur L. Watkins '31, associate in Medicine, are heading the project...