Word: developing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most part, the Arms Traffic Conference at Geneva (TIME, May 11, 18) fired on all its cylinders, but there were several cases of ignition trouble, and it was felt that the engine was untrustworthy and might at any time develop more serious defects...
...remained, and seems likely to endure. But it is not a very exciting sort of prosperity. The average American engaged in business is restless, mercurial, expectant of change. When nothing much happens, he therefore becomes alarmed, even though the situation and outlook be good. U.S. business has yet to develop a temperament suited to economic stability...
...Tenth. The University has secured liberal endowment for a School of Hygiene and Public Health and has established the necessary courses to develop this long neglected and very vital subject." "W. Cameron Forbes...
...might add that he should not be expected to turn all his geese into swans; but he should care tenderly for his geese and develop all the finer qualities of their geesehood...
...players. It is a piece of gorgeous satire and rollicking wit. The burden of the plot concerns the efforts of an English officer at the court to keep free of the entangling wiles of the empress. Alan Mowbray, in the part, succeeded in doing this, but he did not develop a very consistent or convincing character. Jessamine Newcombe portrayed the imperial Catherine, lovely, regal, and almost barbaric enough, while Mr. Hulse was a glorious drunken chancellor whom G. B. S. very kindly provided with lines sufficiently scintillating to inspire anyone to a brilliant performance...