Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctor adjusted me mentally, the most difficult part of the treatment. He had to tell me I was through smoking and would have to lead a regimented life. I've just eliminated the side phases of my job and continue to develop trust business. Since the attack, I've gotten a nice reputation for writing and congratulating new victims over their 'coronation.' I tell them how lucky they will be to be living nice clean lives. They can join the North Shore Coronary Circle-that's a bunch of commuters-or the Chicago Cardiac Club...
Sudden Amnesia. To make sure that both he and Wilt stay happy, Phog himself works with the freshman phenomenon twice a week. One of the first things he did was to start Wilt reading Helen Keller's The Story of My Life "to develop his sense of feel and touch." Phog's current project: teaching Wilt finger manipulation, how to put English on the ball, how to spin it in from all angles when he is jammed in the bucket...
...Association for the Arnold Arboretum," claimed that their appeal had been dismissed on technical grounds and not on the merits of their side. "Seeking to vindicate Harvard's reputation as a scrupulous guardian of trust funds," the Association maintains that its aim is to "restore and develop a leading institution in the horticultural field." With more than 1000 members, including several distinguished alumni, the Association has established a Boston office from which it launches expensive legal maneuvers and a steady, but subdued, pamphlet campaign. Part garden-club sentimentality and part sensible concern for the future of Botany at Harvard...
...Sloganized thinking is catching. Not so long ago the New York City regional meeting for the White House Conference on Education recommended that our schools 'help develop the art of dissent.' What is commendable in dissent as such? Gerald K. Smith and William Z. Foster are both dissenters. What we require is neither assent nor dissent but independent judgment. It is just as idiotic to make a fetish of dissent as of assent." Hook's summing-up: "The task of education is not to produce conformists or nonconformists but intelligent men and women who will see through...
...swing, and Cooper and the Bronson family forgot all about copper. Their Happy Jack mine never had a waste dump, because every pound of rock dug up was commercial-grade ore. Last week Cooper, now 45, and the Bronsons decided that the mine was too big for them to develop with their limited resources. They sold the Happy Jack to Barlu Oil Corp. for a price, based on the mine's production, that may eventually net them $30 million...