Word: developing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans believe every boy and girl should have a fair chance to develop to the maximum his or her potentialities," he said. "Our public schools are an expression of this belief. They are democratic in their nature and as an ideal they are designed to provide ladders of opportunity...
...distinguish between pity and contempt when I read a statement like Mrs. Elmore's -"I am childless from choice" [TIME, March 10]-pity because she will never know or understand the pride and great happiness that can come only from watching one's own children grow and develop; contempt for her intolerance and ignorance and unsurpassed selfishness...
...should have been found to let CBS test the public's reaction to color. As the New York Times snapped: "The public will wonder what has become of free enterprise. It will also wonder if television must be monopolized by the company that has had the foresight to develop a system of color transmission and reception which will be acceptable...
...hero generally announces his fast draw in the first scene and proceeds to prove his point for ninety dreary minutes, John Wayne disposes of four men during the credit background and plays a human being for the rest of the picture. The principals are thus left free to develop an interesting and often humorous plot. Dealing with the life of a wounded badman recuperating in a Quaker family, the script is both clever and tasteful. The writers manage to convey the beliefs of that seet with all the necessary finesse and still draw the comedy of ardent pacifists playing hosts...
Under this cozy agreement no member of Iraq Petroleum could develop fields in the Red Line area unless he put the oil into a common pot. Last week, fed up with this, Jersey Standard formally announced what it had only hinted at before...