Word: developing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upward, with the keel in the groove of the heart, like an inverted V. The principal advantage is rapid and even submersion, the stability depending on the form and the distribution of pressure. It can submerge in 30 seconds without turning a degree, can cruise 20,000 miles and develop a speed of 23 knots an hour. It is 525 ft. long and 49 ft. wide, and carries large torpedo and gun armament. Germany has neither the money, nor the possibility (under present military control) of building such submarines, and the French, Italian and British Governments are interested...
...Senator's action must call up some interesting questions. Does farming develop impetuousness? Is radical bias ear-marked by wildness of behavior? The first is impossible to answer because in spite of the number of expert milkers in Congress, there are few professed farmers. The answer to the second must be no, for before and after the time Senator Sumner was eained many an exciting scene has been enacted within this august body by radical and conservative alike. Flying off the handle is ingrained in human nature and until evolution has evolved a race of intellectual and moral supermen, Congressmen...
...world's record for 100, 220, and 880 yards, he should be able to dazzle Crimson opponents of the future with unparalleled exhibitions of speed. On the other hand, however, if the champion's swiftness is not accompanied by ability to play the game of hockey, the situation may develop of an Olympic skating titlist unable to make the University hockey team...
...believe that the present tendency towards standardization will continue till the press is merely a Ford factory turning out so many assembled papers per day. Nevertheless, there is a wonderful chance for a man to develop a different type of paper,--a smaller paper which should tell the truth and comment briefly. Such a man could acquire much journalistic influence within a few years...
There promises to develop a literature-lawn tennis controversy which will live long in literary and sporting annals. The interesting point, of course, and the one which will never be proved is the attitude magazine editors might take toward Mr. Tilden's fiction if he should leave the courts permanently in favor of literature...