Word: developing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fletcher G. Watson, assistant professor of Education opened a drive this weekend to stimulate interest in science among students in Now England secondary schools and to develop future scientists. Watson heads the executive committee of the newly-established Now England School Science Council...
...life in the Foreign Service. They must consider whether by native intelligence, intellectual equipment, character, and personality qualifications they stand a good chance in the keenly competitive, nation-wide examinations... They should not entertain fanciful illusions about a life generally characterized by gaiety, excitement, and intrigue. These elements may develop in the life of a Foreign Service officer, but they are only occasional highlights in a career of solid, useful work for the public welfare...
...money. After looking over the field, Maurice concluded that his money would do the most good at the University of Chicago. The university was already spending upwards of $500,000 a year on cancer research. The scientists of several departments, including nuclear physicists who helped develop the atom bomb, had worked out a cooperative program to find cancer's cause & cure...
...took nine years of study and travel to enable Dyer-Bennett, born a cousin of thirteenth British baronet Swinnerton Dyer, to develop his skill in the long-lost art of minstrelsy. Last summer he established the Dyer-Bennett School of Minstrelsy in Aspen, Colorado...
Nichols, son of a well-to-do Kansas storekeeper, first learned about neat, compact towns on a trip to Europe. At Harvard he wrote a thesis on the development of raw land. In 1904, with $21,500 put up by farmers, he began to develop raw land himself at Olathe, Kans...