Word: developer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...larvae develop within the mosquito. Later the insect bites another human, disgorging at the instant one or more tiny worms. They burrow into the victim, seek out a lymph node, breed. Batches of them snarl themselves in the lymph passages causing inflammation, which blocks the free passage of lymph through the body. It backs up, causing swellings, particularly of the legs and groin in the Antilles. Affected parts grow massy. The skin thickens and crinkles like an elephant's. Hence the name elephantiasis for one aspect of the disease...
...projected school is obviously founded on the feeling of the Harvard student body that there is a need for an outlet for dramatic expression in Cambridge. The University has offered no adequate means to develop this latent desire for instruction in the theatrical arts, and the present scheme will include those who have felt strongly the lack of this essential...
...suggest the tremendous power of the Lexington, the Navy's publicists have broadcast the fact that her 190.000 h. p. turbo-electric engines could develop enough electricity "to light a city the size of Philadelphia, to operate the transit facilities of a city the size of New York...
...their calling as artists, but it is worth getting straight at the outset that there is, or should be, a conservative poise intimately associated with editorial writing. Other sides of newspaper work may provide valuable experience in being hurled out of advertisers' offices, stimulate romance through backstage interviews, and develope savor faire during flash light shots, but it remains for the editorial office to stay quietly at home and think up explanations and alibis for the things other people do. Which after all, is not a bad talent to develop, particularly if one drives an automobile...
...market booms we develop overoptimism with a corresponding reverse into over-pessimism. They are equally unjustified...