Word: expanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...educated in England, at the University of Pennsylvania and West Point. He was a soldier, lawyer, Indian fighter, editor, land-speculator, explorer (with Freémont), rancher and briefly Governor of the Territory of Colorado. He developed his geopolitical theories in the course of a long, active career helping expand U.S. frontiers...
Student Reserve. To relieve such collegiate worries, the American Council on Education drew up plans; their main idea also occurred to General George Marshall. Late last week the Army acted. Very shortly the Army Specialized Training Reserve Program for 17-year-old civilian high-school graduates will expand quickly from 5,000 to 25,000 boys. To satisfy the Army's need for college-trained specialists, the number may later rise to 100,000. With an R. of that size, few colleges would miss A.S.T.P. very much...
...Spanish. Mireles insists that language classes must not be tedious. Conversation is the main thing. Texas teachers start off by making the sounds of Spanish vowels. On the second day of school third graders greet each other in Spanish. Children talk about their ages, games, homes. Gradually their vocabularies expand. Pupils learn how words and phrases should sound, not abstract rules. Formal grammar comes in high school. The same ideas are embodied in Mireles' textbooks (Mi Libra Español, I, II and III), the latest of which is just off the press...
When Arnold asked aviation manufacturers to expand in 1938, he could guarantee them no funds, offer them no contracts. Aviation research was costly. To design and build just one 8-ft. wheel on the experimental B-19 cost $40,000; the cost of developing the famed Lockheed Lightning...
...ears, which makes him look something like a horned owl. Ham is small (5 ft. 5 in., 150 lb.), mild-spoken and teetotaling. Dutch left Glenn Martin in 1925 to be Donald Douglas' chief engineer in Santa Monica. In 1934 General Motors picked Dutch to manage and expand its North American Aviation. But while Donald Douglas held back against the inevitable expansion of U.S. aircraft production (TIME, Nov. 22), Dutch pushed it with characteristic fervor (he had taken a 1938 European trip and had seen the Nazis...