Word: developed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cotton traders grumbled about having to scramble for their bales instead of waiting for their share of the government's block purchase; some housewives disliked having to shop around for their preferences instead of docilely taking what was doled out to them; manufacturers had to turn to and develop new designs for a newly competitive market; farmers took to mumbling about the dangers of abandoning the government market and its fixed price. Says Butler: "Freedom is a clean wind but a chilly one when you are not used to it." Freedom had made Britain great. Only freedom. Butler argued...
...extension of it, he treats parents as sort of ex officio partners. They take part in administration, even occasionally man the switchboards and serve food in the cafeteria. As for coeducation, Smith follows an unorthodox course. In the lower grades, boys and girls are put together; later, as they develop different interests, they are gradually separated. In their sophomore year in high school, they are brought back together again...
...Sweet had worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Physicist Gordon Brownell to develop a scanning machine that shows, with a high degree of accuracy, not only whether a brain tumor is present but, if so, precisely where it is. Dr. Sweet gave Holly an injection of radioactive arsenic, which has an affinity for tumors. An hour later she lay on a cot with her head between two scintillation counters to which scanning mechanisms were attached. Soon, as the counters picked up the gamma rays, the robot pens showed that the arsenic had concentrated in one part...
...clearly evident that Berenson would like to have Harvard run the place," Coolidge said. "Of course, we have all been thinking about it and hoping that it will be possible to develop an institution along the lines he suggests. But no one in his right mind would dare to predict. . . . I cannot make commitments for myself, or for him, or for them (the Corporation...
...Examiner ten years later. Ignoring events outside Chicago, Editor Howey concentrated on local mayhem and scandal, paid police-switchboard operators to tip him off on the latest crime, delighted in planting fake stories in opposition newspapers. In Boston, a mellowed top Hearst executive, he took time off to develop an automatic photoengraving machine (1931), a "soundphoto" system of transmitting photographs by wire...