Word: developer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...abroad had paved the way for an expansion of our exports. Cuba's consumption of American products now amounts to $44 per capita. The demand for American goods in other Central and South American countries, he declared, could be similarly increased as soon as American capitalists begin to develop the rich natural resources of these territories. Foreign trade, he stated, has become an economic necessity for this country, if our people are to continue in remunerative employment...
Last year Drs. S. A. Levine, Burgess Gordon and C. L. Derick of the Medical School of Harvard University studied the changes in the hearts of long distance runners. They found that men, who had been doing long distance running for years, did not develop enlargement of the heart. They found, also, that the amount of breathing space in the lungs did not seem to affect in one way or another the running ability of the men. This year the same observers studied the men who attempted to qualify for the Olympic games in the Boston marathon, a course...
...method, its technique is not changed to meet altered conditions. The flimsy subterfuge, "at no time before the youth of the country, etc," falls, for it too is habitual. The oldest living graduate, should his memory only serve him, would enjoy the familiar flourishes and fancies, the admonitions to develop character, industry, leadership, which he knew so well...
...ever-present possibility of such a catastrophe, as well as the bitter fights sure to develop over the prohibition enforcement issue, the preparedness question, and the League of Nations controversy, will keep the interest at a high pitch. Factions on both sides of the last three questions have already been organized and are working for support. The New York delegation, which will be solidly back of Governor Smith, will lead the eastern states in the struggle against the western "dry's," who seem to hold the upper hand at present...
...nutrition of the child maintained at its best, there seems to be almost no limit to which recovery may take place from even the most severe conditions. "To secure the maximum benefit that is furnished by growth," said Dr. Holt, "proper treatment must obviously be given; exercises to develop the lungs in cases of deformity of the chest; prolonged rest after acute attacks of heart disease; intelligent feeding, abdominal support, and relief of constipation in dilation of the bowels, but most important of all, the closest attention given to the nutrition of the patient through the entire period of growth...