Word: developers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the whole island was affected. Even trains couldn't run. Said Director Antonio Melis of Florence's Entomological Center: "It's a biological phenomenon unknown in history. . . ." Unless the blight were checked within a fortnight, the locusts would develop wings, blitz the estimated 200,000-ton grain crop, sorely needed for relief. And, warned Professor Melis, should the locusts survive into July, when they lay eggs, next year's generation might "completely extinguish the island's plant life...
...asked significantly, "why Canada and the U.S. should not concert arrangements for joint defense? . . . We are becoming increasingly aware in Canada of our significance as an arctic power, and the effect of this on our relations with both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. We are most anxious to develop the economic . . . resources of our north country . . One of the great sources of uranium in the world is well within the Canadian Arctic Circle. In this arctic development, however, we desire the closest possible cooperation with...
Hard-pressed even to survive, the Copts could develop no great religious art or thought. Sneered the great German theologian Ernst Troeltsch: "Christianity is what it has come to be only through its alliance with antiquity; while with the Copts and Ethiopians it is but a kind of buffoonery." But the very backwardness of the Coptic Church has made it an archeological repository of beliefs and practices more like those of apostolic Christianity than those of Western churches...
...laxity uncharacteristic of this nation is doing more to develop ill will toward the U.S., and hunger and starvation for the people of Europe, than citizens of the U.S. dare to realize. How can we honestly sit down to the table with our consciences and not make sacrifices to aid pitiful and undernourished children...
Laurels, Old & New. It took German scientists twelve years to develop the V2, and U.S. experts nearly a year to learn how to operate it, with the aid of German technicians working in "voluntary protective custody." But the Army does not intend to rest on its secondhand laurels. Soon it will start work on bigger, longer-range rockets designed to carry a worthwhile atomic payload...