Word: developing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Demeter, 23, seemed too weak and skinny to be a big leaguer, but the Dodgers signed him for a paltry $800 bonus on the chance he might fill out and develop power. It seemed wasted money last season, when Demeter, a right-handed batter, hit a sickly .189 for Los Angeles in 43 games with only five home runs, eight runs batted in. But this year the beefed-up (6 ft. 4 in., 185 Ibs.) Demeter is suddenly a slugging terror, in his first ten games had six homers...
...Allen was temporarily diverted from Rockoons to a project at Princeton University to develop thermonuclear power. But his Iowa graduate students carried on the Rockoon firings off the coast of Newfoundland. One day the students put in an excited call to Van Allen in Princeton. The cosmic rays near Newfoundland, the students reported, seemed to rise to incredibly high intensity above 30 miles...
...seminar program should not develop merely a training ground for honors tutorial. Selection by section need not follow predelineated academic criteria; section men should be encouraged to play hunches...
Cuba's economy needs government planning, Harris asserted. The Batista Government, he noted, failed to exert sufficient control to develop the economy. He claimed that Castro's policy of attempting to raise tax revenues to finance public works would both promote development and reduce the island's 20 per cent unemployment rate...
...kind of life that might develop on the surface of a small, central-heated star would not resemble earthly life. It would have to get along without light, except perhaps faint starlight, and it would have to cope with gravitation and probably atmospheric pressures enormously greater than are felt on earth. But there is no reason why life in such a place could not evolve into intelligent forms...