Word: develop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...head. -We'll be back -don't forget that,-chirped Mrs. Dean, explaining that the fabulous cripple who can no longer pitch overhand had asked to be sent to Tulsa, where, under the hot sun (most Tulsa games are played at night), he would develop a sidearm delivery, make a come back next year...
Informed that New York member-mothers had pledged themselves to develop the art of potshotting descending parachute troops (TIME, June 3), Novelist-Mother Kathleen Morris, president of the National Legion of Mothers of America, protested: ". . . Warlike flights of fancy. . . . We are not planning to take up arms. Ours is a peace organization...
...Rochester scientists urged that physicians should remember two vital facts: 1) gonococci quickly develop resistance to sulfanilamide and its relative sulfapyridine, even when these drugs are given in increasing amounts; 2) only sure test of the presence of tricky gonococci is careful laboratory culture...
...failed. "Dark Triumph," boasting a lot of new talent and some oldtimers like Walter Pidgeon and Clare Trevor is one of the better pictures to his a Boston screen this year. It has splendid acting, direction that knows how to use a herd of thundering cavalrymen and how to develop the character of a good man turned bad, and a touch of building-the-old-West spirit all rolled into one. If Hollywood can keep turning American history into such thrillers, it had better put the Schlesingers and Bucks on its payroll instead of the George S. Kaufmanns...
...people whose memory of wrongs is so ancient that their ideas about right tend to be either factional or mythical. From childhood up Yeats believed in Ireland's myths more than in its factions, believed also that the Irish, to become a self-respecting nation, would have to develop a literature so eloquent of truths about the Irish race that Irishmen would pore over its books with the intensity they customarily reserved for putting God's curse on the English and each other...