Word: developing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him Territorial Governor of Alaska in 1939, chunky, mercurial Ernest Gruening has campaigned vehemently for the abolition of his office. Last week, testifying at a congressional hearing on Alaskan statehood, he reiterated his reasons. Alaska, he said, can never really develop until it becomes a full-fledged member of the Union, takes part in presidential elections, chooses its own governor, and sends Senators and a Congressman to Washington to fight its battles...
...spirit. Through the window from my hospital bed in New York I watched the endless heavy traffic. Thousands of cars went by upon the street day and night-and only a few police guided them. It was very remarkable. . . . In China . . .we must teach the masses to understand responsibility . . . develop a law-abiding spirit...
...week switchman on the Brooklyn Bridge, Andy Varipapa used to jog back & forth across the bridge every day to develop his legs. In the finals of a recent Chicago tournament, 16 crack bowlers had to roll a grueling 64 games in four days. Varipapa, though 53, was the only one to finish without sore muscles. Despite his chunkiness his arms are sinewy, his wrists powerful, his legs hard. Volatile as he is, Varipapa rarely loses his temper during a match. Says he: "Sometimes I get mad when the ball hits the pins the right way and they...
...thus far, says Dr. Conant, has been in the "natural sciences"-those concerned with man's environment, rather than with man himself. The "social sciences" (everything from psychology to history) have certainly not given man much help in keeping up with the flood of revolutionary knowledge and techniques developed by the natural sciences. Science's next broad campaign may be to develop the social sciences to the point where they do some good...
Died. Count Hideo Kodama, 71, perennial Japanese Cabinet member, onetime majority leader in the House of Peers, a wartime Minister of Education and chief of the economic committee that hoped to develop Asia's occupied areas; of cancer; in Tokyo...