Word: developing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piece about the trials of a working girl in Boston in the Seventies, they apparently thumbed through the Joe Miller index and looked up all the standard japes about the Hub city. Into this essentially fine musical comedy idea they threw Betty Grable and Dick Haymes and proceeded to develop that peculiar mixture of maudlin sentiment and half-hearted satire that passes for musical comedy on the screen. The result, which was supposed to send Bostonians hustling to their desks to write indignant letters to the local papers, is scarcely strong enough to stir up the lunatic fringe...
Genes Not All. This classical explanation of heredity, taught in every biology textbook, is not wholly satisfactory. Some cells, notably certain cancer cells in mice, seem to develop oddly, defying their hereditary genes. At Indiana University, Dr. Tracy M. Sonneborn found that the one-celled animal paramecium sometimes did this...
...right . . . [the man of the future] would probably have great muscular skill but little muscular strength, a large head, fewer teeth than ourselves, and so on. He would develop very slowly, perhaps not learning to speak till five years of age, but continuing to learn up to the age of 40, and then living several centuries...
...experts in education, industry, and government who have been interested in the progress of large scale calculators. Two of the most trying problems that the experts will tackle are the storage of numbers in the machine for future reference in a problem and the elimination of the inaccuracies that develop from the constant interpolation of intermediate results. Professor Aiken is confident that the meeting of minds will eliminate duplication of effort and bring these problems much closer to final solution...
After what she had seen & heard, Observer Dommisse had at least two points to drive home to her Government: 1) keep firm control over programs and advertising; 2) take long steps to develop radio talent...