Word: developing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another member of the hurling staff who may see action tomorrow is Landon Clay. Clay has not been in any contests yet this year, but he has shown a marked improvement in practice. "He has a great curve and is fast, and he should develop into a sweet pitcher if he learns to control his deliveries," said Bob Regan '41 who caught him in practice Thursday. Regan was the varsity catcher on the 1941 squad...
More than 40 candidates have answered Coach Jaakko Mikkola's summer call for track hopefuls, and practices are being held daily, even though no meets have been scheduled. These workouts, short and not too strenuous, are designed to help inexperienced newcomers and develop fresh talent while keeping the old hands in shape...
...southern Mexico are threatened with mass blindness as an obscure disease sweeps the tropical, coffee-growing state of Chiapas. Thus far Government sanitary brigades have only sized up the enemy-a kind of filaria or threadworm, whose eggs are spread from victim to victim by gnats. The eggs develop into hairlike parasites, some 20 inches long, which work their way through the body toward the head and shoulders. There they reproduce and multiply into tangled masses, forming cysts...
...college; Stettinius & Co. will "prepare them for life." Each of the 15 big-name visitors has promised to spend two weeks of the school year on Romford's 680 acres-teaching, hiking, fishing and just chatting with the boys. Says the catalogue: that way a Romford graduate should develop "an interest beyond the next dance...
...tional Association of Purchasing Agents studied signs of a different color. Said Roy Haberkern, vice president of R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.: "We are told that within six months after the mills get into full operation steel backlogs will be wiped out and a highly competitive market will develop...