Word: developed
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...length and that lower legs were proportionately longer, while thighs were shorter but more muscular than those of whites. "In jumping, the longer leg is evidently an advantage," Dr. Metheny wrote, "since [he] could raise his leg higher. Applying the principle of the lever, the longer lower leg can develop greater velocity at the end and serves as a longer lever with which to push off the ground, thus increasing the distance over which the force can be applied." The same general rules, Metheny found, applied to blacks' arms: on the average, blacks' hands are larger than those...
...problem that Polavision apparently will not encounter, at least any time soon, is competition from Kodak. At the Kodak annual meeting, held on the same day as Polaroid's, Chairman Walter Fallon indicated to a generally critical audience that the company is not trying to develop an instant-movie system. Instead, it is concentrating on other goals, including trying to eliminate the flashbulb in still photography by making a whole new series of amateur cameras to use high-speed film. In March Kodak introduced a fast color film with an ASA rating...
...trying to develop channels of communication between scholars and commercial business men in the interest of broadening their backgrounds," Roy M. Hofheinz Jr., conference director and professor of Government, said yesterday...
...born in Tennessee 60 years ago, place the reader in the stereotype of an Old Southern atmosphere. Set in the days of the author's youth, the stories are ages apart from the breakneck speed of Cambridge (or even Memphis) life today. The author takes plenty of time to develop each of his stories, and never failing to announce his frequent digressions, speaks intimately to his audience, as he would to a member of the family or a friend. In fact, his world consists exclusively of families, friends, and servants. It is self-contained, homely world where values and etiquette...
...have no plans for major developments in the way of acquisitions," says Backe. "I am more interested in internal development." There is plenty to develop. Though first-quarter profits were a record $33 million, the company has been stung by ABC's taking over the lead in prime-time TV ratings. Backe has scant experience in broadcasting -which can only accentuate Paley's continued indispensability-and is the kind of manager who lets division heads run their own shops. Trouble is, the CBS network and programming chiefs are both so green that they have never scheduled a whole...