Word: developed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only individuals have humor. There are the explorers, discoverers and obsessive questioners; their individuality is not necessarily greater because they chose to die, like Socrates, or smaller because they saved their necks, like Galileo. There are the obscure men who, by an accident of history, are forced to develop individuality or at least strength, like Emperor Claudius and Harry Truman. There are, above all, the unremembered and unknown individuals who take their stand and suffer their small martyrdoms in all places and all ages. With them in mind, Kierkegaard said: "The truly extraordinary man is the truly ordinary...
...businessmen wait longer for their product to develop than the timber owners of the Pacific Northwest. It takes Douglas firs 80 years to mature, and some still waiting to be cut were young when Paul Revere made his midnight ride. Timber's unique "lead time" is a constant concern of the 63-year-old Weyerhaeuser Co., which turns out more lumber and wood products than any other company in the $6 billion industry that provides raw material for U.S. homes, newsprint, boats, containers and furniture...
...someone once asked why he does not retire to contemplate his gentle Corots and just clip coupons, Pagliai replied that "clipping coupons gives you calluses on the brain. I work because I still have the ability to create." While making articulate points about the businessman's duty to develop a country, he is the first to agree that he has made a good thing out of it, and does not consider the two motives contradictory...
This year, nearly 25.000 women in the U.S. will die of it, 55,000 others will develop the disease. Many of the deaths are unnecessary, as the American Cancer Society points out in its public warnings designed to encourage early recognition. Medical records clearly show that early recognition and treatment of breast cancer result in a high rate of survival...
...Arts and 'Sciences, said yesterday "it was a dandy move in the right direction." He pointed out, however, that each department has wide discretionary powers and that all changes must originate with each department. The changes do not indicate any trend or general change, though he felt they might develop into a "reforming contagion...