Word: developer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...About 95% of the expenditure on agricultural research went toward increasing production; only 5% to discover new uses for agricultural products. While vitamins provided a $100,000,000 industry, the food values of seaweed were studied, and grass continued to develop as a health food...
...Peattie thinks, nudged mankind into history. The human mind had to evolve to meet ice-age problems of finding shelter, food, defense, and has probably not progressed since the great glacier withdrew. Then nomadic men settled in the grasslands of the Nile, Euphrates, Yangtze, etc., to become tillers and develop cultures. Out of the nomadic, pastoral life of the early Jews grew the symbolism of their religion and of Christianity-e.g., "The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want...
...first half of 1941. What will America do in that crisis? Can anyone picture President Roosevelt, and those enthusiasts Henry Stimson and Frank Knox, sitting back cautiously at such a time? Perhaps they have nothing definite in mind. They say they have to wait and see how things develop. But it is essential that we get from them some indication of what they might or might not do, if we are to place such wide discretion in their hands...
Where The Cradle Will Rock salted its proletarian thesis with genuinely funny satire, No For An Answer lacks wit - al though left-wingers will like its interpolated lampoon of a saloon-socialite singing I'm Fraught with You. Composer Blitz stein's jittery tunes occasionally develop into muscular near-melodies, are theatrically effective in the last ten minutes of the opera. For the most part they are sung, and sometimes talked, by people who were hired as actors rather than as singers. The production has a minimum of props and no scenery. No For An Answer, presented...
...pointed out by several of the English authorities--is that a nation under the terrible immediate pressure of modern warfare finds great difficulty in doing more than carrying on the war from day to day, and an outside group, coming in with a primary responsibility to observe and develop, has potentialties for making great contributions...