Word: developing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Royal Rupert 99, son of the famous Hereford, Hazford Rupert 81, was calved on March 23, 1942 on the Sulphur (Okla.) ranch of Roy Turner, now governor of Oklahoma. As Rupert approached adolescence, his general shape and beefiness (as well as his distinguished ancestry) gave promise that he would develop into a bull of bulls. On Jan. 10, 1944, he was sold, unproven, to Glad Acres Farms at Dallas for $38,000-a record for white-faced Herefords...
...Haagen-Smit hopes that his work may develop into a new technique of flavor preservation. When vegetables are dehydrated, for instance, many of their volatile flavoring compounds are lost. After chemists have learned what these compounds are, they may be able to devise tricks for capturing and restoring the natural flavor to dehydrated food...
...will bring about lasting peace . . ." (he visited Hitler, Göring, Ribbentrop) ; of a head injury suffered four years ago in a glider crash; in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. A longtime supporter of Chamberlain until after Munich, Londonderry later campaigned for increased British air strength, won praise for having helped develop Britain's Spitfire and Hurricane fighter planes...
Cabot has discovered what most local gentry already know. A suitor never looks a gift-horse in the mouth, a Radcliffe girl in the face, or a sock in the heel. Both knitting and digging develop the wrong muscles...
Teele admitted that business administrators often are not graduates of business colleges, but pointed out the value of the qualities which the Business School attempts to develop: 1) Ability to work effectively with groups of people; 2) Ability to make decisions under time pressure and with an insufficient supply of facts; 3) Ability to draw effectively on a fund of pertinent information...