Word: developer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese landed in Sarawak, on the wild and oily island of Borneo. So far this was only a holding attack on Singapore's flank; it might eventually develop into a quest for oil, but the British reported that they had already destroyed the wells in the region threatened by the Japanese...
Bright, healthy children may be transformed into incorrigible delinquents. Adults do not change so radically, but may develop a typical masklike expression, trembling hands, a stiff, rigid body. Some are drowsy all the time; others cannot sleep. Strangely enough, victims do not necessarily lose athletic skill. Said Dr. Neal: "I have seen patients bedridden by day who were able to walk and even dance during the night. . . . One patient could pitch a ball with speed and accuracy, whereas the spasticity [jerkiness] and tremor of his right arm interfered with his carrying out the more simple acts of everyday life...
Botanist Knudson suspects that the bigger its chloroplasts, the bigger is a plant's power to synthesize food for its own growth-and for the nourishment of man and beast. So Knudson's colleagues are eagerly planning to adapt his method to develop more productive strains of corn, wheat, clover, other crops...
...chose not to tell U.S. ally Cuba that the Good Neighbor policy was solely a U.S. war measure. It was just as well: sugar, which is also crucially needed to make alcohol for explosives, is now the one U.S. food staple in which a shortage and rationing may possibly develop by next year...
This lazy call to the colors is far surpassed, however, by all six articles. In a readable style greatly improved over his previous contribution to the Guardian, Edward Ames '42 warns liberals of the "Lean Years" that the war will bring, and urges them not to develop a habit of slighting labor, as a result of the war effort...