Word: developement
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...life. But it does give a thoroughness and accuracy or knowledge which our young people so often lack. I would not be understood to advocate driving out of the American college the extra curricular activities that play so large a part in its life and, no doubt, help to develop the self-reliance and initiative which characterize so many young American college graduates. But I do insist that the college is primarily a place of intellectual appeal in which attention to the serious problems of life should be emphasized and not overshadowed by other activities such as inter-collegiate football...
...kneaded coal for man's better industry, so at Paris last week it plunged into tropical waters and came out dripping with potential electricity. At Paris the medium for science was Thermo-dynamist Georges Claude,* who told the French Academy of Science that it should be possible to develop cheap power from sun-heated tropical waters...
...real Philippine problem is not political but economic. It ever the Filipinos are to be able to stand by themselves, they must develop their enormous potential wealth. Only about 12 per cent, of the area of the islands is under cultivation. Agricultural methods are very primitive. Little has been done to improve them. The soil and climate of the Islands, however, is as good as the best in the fabulously rich Indies. All manner of tropical products can be grown there--rubber, camphor, coffee, tea, cocoa, gutta-percha, cocoanuts. Of these we import each year enormous quantities, but only...
...recent article Mr. Gilbert Seldes points to the mechanical aspect of life in the United States--symbolized by the little electrically-made cubes of ice--as a possibility which might develop American taste away from the baroque. The smooth simplicity of things mechanical, embodying at the same time, comfort and even luxury, appear to him to be able to keep the American standard near a same norm...
rubber Further, trees it takes (Hevea) to five yield years latex. for Some experiments with low-yield rubber shrubs in the Southwest and Mexico are in progress. U. S. Rubber Co. has its own plantations in Oceana. Firestone Rubber Co. is trying to develop Liberian jungles. It has made little progress there so far. In their predicament U. S. rub ber manufacturers have five measures towards gaining some relief: 1) reclaimed rubber, 2) synthetic rubber, 3) factice, 4) mineral rubber, and 5) more economical meth ods of manufacture. Improved Manufacture. Last week a company was formed, the American Anode...