Word: developments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact of the matter is that R.T. still hasn't had a fair test. Construction still is under progress, commuters, remain unfamiliar with the system, and pedestrians are all too often downright hostile and uncooperative. But barring a gang war between can companies, the Harvard Square battleground should soon develop into merely another busy, but otherwise normal, intersection. Although not as tasty as Tono Bungay, rotary traffic should effect more material results...
...Page, president of Terminal Broadcasting, Inc., promised to "permeate the whole place" with music broken every 2½ minutes by commercial spot-announcements. "Right now," said Page, '"we're experimenting with the difference in volume caused by the number of people. Ideally, we'd like to develop a 'thermostatic-type' control that would set the volume to the changing volume of passengers...
...Times concluded the girls at Smith are going to college ". . . not to render their sex less feminine but to develop as fully as may be the powers of womanhood and furnish women with means of usefulness, happiness and honor...
These fellowships, which provide for a year of study at Harvard, are designed to enable deserving men and women in the educational field to enlarge their backgrounds and develop special fields of interest...
Visiting in Chicago, pipe-puffing Guy George Gabrielson, new national chairman of the Republican Party, passed on to 140 Cook County party bosses a suggestion from General Dwight D. Eisenhower: "I hope the Republicans now will develop party principles so that even a person as dumb as I am will be able to tell the difference between the Republican and Democratic parties...