Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last Spring the Committee on Educational Policy gave "a mandate to the Masters" to develop non-Honors tutorial in the Houses, Leighton continued. "The Masters have been led to believe that, if they could decide what kind of teaching help they want, the College will provide the teachers...
...book-lined library overlooking the swimming pool, López Mateos summed up the problem as he sees it: "Mexico must create national wealth from capital to make jobs for an additional 1,000,000 Mexicans a year. Mexican capital alone-private and government-has not been able to develop our potential. With the help of outside capital, perhaps this can be achieved...
Learning is basic in the development of human intelligence. But the big, simple-minded computers of today are much like newborn infants, limited permanently to the abilities with which they were born. To develop as a human brain does, a machine should be able to absorb information, turn it into organized experience and act upon it with ever-increasing effectiveness...
After only two days of discussion, Touré and Nkrumah issued a ringing communiqué: "Inspired by the example of the 13 American colonies, which on attainment of their independence constituted themselves into a confederacy which ultimately developed into the United States of America," the two nations, though separated by the French Ivory Coast. would join in a United Republic. "As a first step, we have agreed to adopt a union flag and to develop between our two governments the closest contacts . . . especially in the fields of defense and foreign and economic affairs...
...Mile Reaction. This discovery, made in April of 1956, set Holman and his visitor, Dr. Nicholas T. Werthessen, jumping like baboons with excitement. Its importance lay in the fact that previously (except for rare cases in monkeys and expensive great apes) no animal had been known to develop arterial disease like a human being's, despite ingenious laboratory tricks. Researchers have learned much from rabbits, rats and chickens, but findings from these lower forms of life cannot be applied simply and directly to human diseases. The baboon, despite its lousy pelt, its foul temper and its embarrassingly lurid hind...