Word: developed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...friend who declined to give to the Senior Gift this year told me that although she adored her college friends and felt they were the most positive part of her undergraduate experience, she didn't think Harvard itself had much to do with her ability to develop strong friendships...
...Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak develop the Apple...
Edwin Land had long since dropped out of Harvard, founded a successful corporation and come up with scores of inventions when he took on the challenge of instant photography just after World War II. Until then, photographers had to develop their film and then print it on paper--or send it off to a professional lab--before they actually had a picture in hand. Land was convinced he could shortcut this laborious process by creating a camera that did all the work itself, and by 1947 he had done it. Instead of conventional film, the Polaroid Land Camera was loaded...
...endocrinologists Gregory Pincus, John Rock and C.R. Garcia develop the birth-control pill...
...Alec Jeffreys and colleagues at the University of Leicester, England, develop "genetic fingerprinting," which uses unique sequences of DNA to identify individuals...