Word: developer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another line of attack against plant fungi is to develop naturally immune strains by breeding. At the turn of the century long-fibred U. S. cotton was rescued from fungus by crossbreeding with a resistant Egyptian variety; in the 1920s Louisiana sugar cane was saved by supplanting the old "noble" strains with resistant breeds. In 1937 the U. S. Bureau of Plant Industry estimated that more than one-fourth of U. S. farmlands were planted to disease-resistant crops...
...conditions in the Near East have interrupted the plans of Harvard archaeologists to search out evidence about the little known people of five to six thousand years ago who were among the first to domesticate plants and animals and thus develop a settled agricultural economy, Derwood W. Lockard, of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology, reported last night in a lecture here...
...Near East, showed no signs of wobbling into the Axis camp as Yugoslavia did (see p. 26). Turkish Cabinet members refused a German invitation to see the newsreel Victory in the West and civilians were ordered evacuated from Istanbul. To back up Turkey with what they hope will develop into a pan-Arab front, the British used as their mouthpiece the reliable Emir of Trans-Jordan, who likes the new Turkey as much as he disliked the old Ottoman Empire. From his winter camp at Eshuneh, Abdullah sat down to the international chessboard and proclaimed to the world...
...order to enlarge the field of law that is taught and to develop new techniques and disciplines of study, the Seven-year Program will consist of three years of regular college work, which will be strictly limited as to the subjects to be taken; the fourth and fifth years will consist of the regular first two years of the Law School; and the sixth and seventh years will be equally divided between the Law School and the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Children live in a world peopled by large, self-confident beings who seem to do what they please but will not let children do what they please. If children brood on this situation too much, or if the situation gets them down, they can develop obsessions, phobias, complexes, neuroses as black-fledged as any grownup's. In general, the symptoms are abnormal behavior-tantrums, lethargy, refusal to eat, overeating, wetting their beds "when they are old enough to know better...