Word: develop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continues, intensifies, and plans for the indefinite future. The total effect is one of confusion to the individual and an overall diffusion of energy. There is a fundamental friction between the military habit of mind, and the approach to thought and action which a liberal college education aims to develop. The one is obedience and a stifling of the individual for practical expedience; the other is experiment, trial and error growth, necessarily inefficient in the short run. The student who tries to combine the two in an ever more divergent path finds himself in a continual quandary. On the other...
...said: "Well, that's three I've seen go-the Lex, the Yorktown and now this baby." A thin-faced chief petty officer said: "I'm thinking of those boys on Guadal." The ship's executive officer said merely: "We'll just have to develop better methods of detection...
Foamglas, developed by Pittsburgh Corning Corp., is utterly unlike ordinary glass. It not only floats but is black in color, opaque, weighs about one-fifteenth as much as ordinary glass and can easily be sawed, drilled or shaped without chipping or shattering. To make it, glass is finely crushed and heated with carbon dust in a furnace. The molten mass rises and swells like dough as gas from the carbon froths up the melting glass into a foam which later cools and hardens while still keeping its foam structure. Waterproof, ratproof, rotproof, heat-resistant-Foamglas is finding its first...
...situation this year is almost the same. Once again the Crimson enters the game a rank underdog. Once again, Blaik has built a crushing attack around hammering Hank Mazur and ripping Ralph Hill, two bruising triple threat backs. And again, the slow-to develop Harlow attack may be ripe to blast the Army...
This week the maneuvers will develop into a bigtime mock fight when planes and many tanks join the fray. When the dust has cleared, the generals will confer. The hot, dirty, tired, hungry men along the Cumberland hope the generals will decide they are ready...