Word: developing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week another water famine caused a trackside crisis. Santiago's aqueduct broke down, cutting off the water supply for 1,200,000 people, and leaving the Hipódromo without water to develop pictures of a photo finish. Track authorities saved the day. They developed the films in Coca-Cola...
Defense Minister Douglas Abbott announced that Churchill, Manitoba had been chosen as an experimental station to test and develop military equipment. The Canadian press said that the recommendation had been made by the Joint U.S.Canada Permanent Defense Board, that eventually 5,000 Canadians and 5,000 U.S. troops may be stationed at Churchill. Washington denied that U.S. troops would be sent there, said only military observers would go to Churchill...
...scientific celebrity and adventurer, he finds zest in teaching, mountain climbing, fishing and in trying a new flavor of ice cream, no less than in exploring the complicated structure of chlorophyll and in helping develop nuclear fission. He has the great capacity for growth that is the essence of the educated man. And his own breadth of intellectual interest is the essence of 310-year-old Harvard, whose motto is the single Latin word Veritas (Truth...
...really encouraging note is that Dick hasn't been heard complaining about his material. Facing the second nine-game schedule in his career here (the only other was in 1942), he hopes he gets a chance to develop his team, polish it into working shape before too stiff competition comes along. Connecticut, opponent number one, has Walt Trojanowski, who scored 22 touchdowns last year, on its side; and Tufts and Princeton, second and third on the card, are both rated strongly in the East...
...hepatitis, which attacks the liver, is rarely fatal, but invariably puts its victims in bed for two to three months. It may be much more widespread than formerly supposed. Reason: most of the symptoms (headache, fever, vomiting) are those of influenza or any respiratory disorder, and some patients never develop jaundice (yellowing of the skin...