Word: developement
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...digging students had heard about John P. Holland, Paterson schoolteacher who, more than a half century ago, helped develop submarine navigation from an affair of iron or copper tubs driven by handscrews to a science of military importance. They had heard how he ventured down under the Passaic River's surface in one of his first models, with a boy to steer while he himself manned the pumps. When craft failed to reappear, divers had rescued Inventor Holland and the boy from the river bottom. The imperfect submarine had been hoisted up, dragged ashore, abandoned. Inventor Holland's late fame...
...director at Fort Worth, en couraged doctors by reporting success with a serum treatment for infantile paralysis. The treatment consisted of injecting serum from a patient recently recovered from the disease into the bloodstream of a new case. In five cases treated, paralysis was stopped. But, because paralysis may develop long after a patient seems cured, the certainty of Dr. Martin's serum treatment cannot be yet affirmed...
Paralytic manifestations appear sometimes early, sometimes late. Recovery may be complete, or partial or complete disability develop. The central nervous system is attacked, sometimes involving the brain, always the spine...
...want young fellows," said Colonel Green, "with good ideas and no money ... to feel that here is a place where they can come. I will grubstake them when their ideas appear sound, and let them perfect and experiment. If they develop anything marketable, they can take it out and it is theirs...
...tousled in roundhouses, barrooms, boxcars and worse. Hanging around a small-time circus was comparatively idyllic. All he had to do was help drive the tentstakes, feed the animals, chase vermin, and fool or fight the "rube" public in quiet sections of the South. He had much time to develop his "understanding" of the rudimentary humanities and brutalities of hand-to-mouth people and evolve the social viewpoint that was later to shock polished people into regarding Mr. Tully as a visitation upon polite hypocrisy...