Word: developer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most spectacular event of the strike was the sailing of the White Star Liner Majestic from Southampton. As the strike began to-develop, Americans in Europe were seized with a sudden and overpowering desire to go home. In a few days the bookings for the Majestic swelled from 1,700 to 2,300 -a. record number this year for the westward voyage. Bookings came in so rapidly that soon all accommodations were occupied. Men in'.the cloak and suit business who had been abroad buying and had to be back for fall openings, fell on their knees and implored...
...hoped, as dead as the contest between Science and Theology. No reasonable person in either camp doubts that both are essential elements in our civilization, that room must be found for both, and that boys and girls who have an aptitude for either must be given opportunities to develop in accordance with their abilities. . . The value of any element in education lies in its richness in ideas by which it strengthens and enlarges the mind. Science has such ideas in plenty; and History and Modern Languages; but none of these subjects has them more richly than the Classics. Their strength...
...latter, archaeologist and artist, has been a student of the cinema since its earliest days. He clearly sees Cinematography as the national art-form it indubitably is. Nearly ten years ago he was persuading the Art Institute of Denver to share that view, take up the art form, develop and preserve...
...Barclay's visit was called "unofficial." Asked if he had come to negotiate a loan, he replied with a smile: "No, we do not need to borrow money from the United States just now, but later, perhaps, a loan may be asked for to develop the railroad system...
Such scenes do not yet occur, by design, in U. S. schools. But it is the proceeding that a Paris despatch described last week as Pedagog Phillippe Teste's "psychic bath," adopted by several French schools to develop children's self-control. Teachers testified that the "bath" had proved "extremely beneficial" in tranquilizing unruly, restive children. Doubtless it had stimulated many a logy, lethargic one as well...