Word: developer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...requirements of a considerable program of foreign aid. . . . [But] with or without a foreign-aid program, this country faces a pressing urgency for expanding its conservation practices . . . for preserving the fertility of its soil and the future of its forests.. . . and for extending its efforts to discover and develop new sources of supply for many of its basic raw materials...
...hard business terms, this meant that San Francisco hoped that French designers would develop a new market by designing for San Francisco's mass producers without hurting the regular high-priced Paris trade. In Paris the San Franciscans also hoped to find new supplies of buttons, belts and other hard-to-get accessories...
DeMille is a movie pioneer in various other respects, too. He did as much as any other man to develop "spectacle" movies. He doubtless did more than any other man, with his extravagant bathing scenes, to turn the U.S. bathroom into a national pride. He was the first Hollywoodian to risk a movie on an all-out religious theme (The Ten Commandments, 1923). He was among the first to use "effect lighting." He pioneered with the camera boom and the "blimp" (silencing insulation which permits the sound camera to move freely). He was among the first to use color...
...avowed purpose of the 177-year old college is to develop men "of broad interests and good character," and teaching undergraduates to live and work together is the focal point of most of its official programs. As soon as the downy-cheeked freshman first sets foot on the Hanover campus, he is prompted to mingle with his classmates. His quarters are spacious but purposely drab, so that he will be discouraged from gathering mold over his books in scholarly isolation. The result is that the average Dartmouth man knows at least 200 of his fellows well enough to carry...
...western universities. Dartmouth has been careful not to let the Greek letters dominate campus politics. Fraternity men do not band together to back their own candidates for office or foist their whims on a neglected student body. In the tremendous camaraderie that is Dartmouth life, they fail even to develop the exclusive clannishness for which they are most often criticized...