Word: developing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these usually unhappy creatures happen to develop is beyond biology's present knowledge. Dr. Young guesses: "Fundamentally these disturbances of development must rest on the original chromosome formula" in the fertilized ovum which turns into a hermaphroditic baby. The embryo through the sixth to seventh week shows no differentiation into male or female. Thereafter, in the normal course of gestation, the primitive gonad becomes male or female, and the rest of the genital apparatus follows suit. But, in an astonishingly frequent number of gestations, something occurs to interfere with the development of the accessory male or female apparatus...
...short although many of the proposals of the President are as worthy of stinging defeat as ever, it appears likely that his mental state is calmer and more conciliatory, quieted perhaps by the start of a depression which may well develop into one fully as fearful as the depression which first elected Mr. Roosevelt. But vastly more important than the President attitude is the attitude of Congress, and if the beginning of the special session is any barometer, the fears of business men, which have been responsible for this "second depression," should be largely groundless...
Although a much smaller number than at the height of the season, four shells have been practicing consistently. "If they can develop last year's spirit and enthusiasm, this Freshman group should amount to something," commented the usually non-committal Love...
...book contains at least one very good passage: the description of the street fight and chase in which Caley receives his death wound. Most readers will agree that Caley in his bedazzled guilelessness, his dumb trustingness, is basically well conceived. It is in the development of the story that things go astray, and it is the author's wavering method of attack that causes the trouble. A love affair that starts hard-boiled ("Aw, come on. Give me a break. . . . We all get pushed around.") goes suddenly opalescent. (". . . A part of me that is still hard and stiff...
...remedy the danger of becoming too ingrown is hard to say. It would seem highly desirable for the "Guardian" to develop sufficient standing to be receiving articles from men outside the immediate vicinity of the Yard...