Word: developing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...votes at last count but these were able to elect only five Governors, seven Senators, 89 Congressmen. It has no patronage to speak of. In place of able Mr. Farley it has brash Mr. Hamilton, whose talents, whatever they may be, have not had a chance to develop in the atmosphere of stale controversy which has surrounded him since 1936. One more thing which the G. O. P. has and the Democrats have not is a Committee of 200 to draw up a Program. Organized last autumn to appease Mr. Hoover, whose scheme of a mid-term convention was declined...
...later, to the amazement of its 300 inhabitants, Gilbert Gable appeared at Port Orford, Ore., formed six companies to promote it as the only natural deep-water harbor on the rugged coast between Puget Sound and the Golden Gate. Fifty-four years before, Congress had appropriated $150,000 to develop Port Orford as a harbor of refuge, but nothing was done. Gilbert Gable proceeded to spend $750,000 doing it, most of the money going for a huge breakwater dock, an administration building, a new lumber mill...
...feet four, and the other, Howard ("Shorty") Black, almost six feet two. In Manhattan last week the Templars were not only too tall but too fast for Colorado University, whose team they defeated, 60-to-36, in the final game of a tourney which metropolitan basketball writers hope to develop as an annual "basketball world series" (TIME, March...
...blonde from its natural medium shade, she set out to try to justify for Warners the glamorous canard that she was "a schoolgirl Constance Bennett." It was not until Cabin in the Cotton (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932), with Richard Barthelmess, that she got a chance to develop her stripe of cinemeanness. Two years later RKO borrowed her for the role of hateful, shrewish, supremely selfish Mildred in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (TIME, July 9, 1934). Said Bette when she saw the film for the first time: "I didn't believe I could...
...trained officers and noncommissioned officers. Suspicious of the loyalty of the regular officers who joined them, led by left-wing writers, parlor pinks and Communist tub thumpers, the Government has been unable, even with considerable help from competent foreign advisers, after a year and one half of war, to develop an army capable of fighting on equal terms with Franco's men. Franco's battles have been fought and won with numerical inferiority in every case. The Government superiority of manpower has been nullified by military incompetence...