Word: developing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With outdoor practices the backs have been able to develop the speed and hard, running with which they hope to surprise the Cantab ball-carriers. Lining up in the scrum-half position is scrappy Al Osgood who was on the Princeton team of last spring. Playing in the backfield for the first time, Osgood is working out well and is showing plenty of fight, together with a fast "dive pass" to his inside backs. Behind him at stand-off, Harry Goff from Stanford has been turning in some fast, tricky running which has given him the edge so far over...
...take it from me that I have no precise instructions from the President," he confided. "You can't expect me to develop into a statesman overnight. . . . By 1940 I believe there will be regular passenger and freight airlines across the Atlantic, and I would be willing to be the first passenger myself. . . . Right now the average American isn't as interested in foreign affairs as he is in how he's going to eat and whether his insurance is good. Some, maybe, even are more interested in how Casey Stengel's Boston Bees are going...
With the death of Robert Scripps-none of whose two girls and four boys (chief beneficiaries of E. W.'s trust) is old enough to rule-Roy Howard, diminutive, dandified and able, last week became the head of the empire he had helped develop. His post: chairman of a triumvirate of trustees of whom the other two will be hard-working Board Chairman William Waller Hawkins and George Bertram ("Deake") Parker, talented editor-in-chief of Scripps-Howard papers...
Tuesday. At 4 o'clock in the Fogg Museum, a conference will be held to discuss secondary instruction and social studies teaching. At 3:15 o'clock, in Phillips Brooks House there will be a discussion on methods for High Schools to develop Civic Conscience...
...permitted in barracks and weekly "hops" provide for other needs, but punishment is sternly administered for such offenses as "making public display of affection with young lady at skating rink about 5:10 o'clock thereby causing unfavorable comment from visitors." However the purpose of West Point is to develop, not to destroy initiative, and that it is successful the capability of our regular army officers bears testimony...