Word: developement
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...practice of having conferences of Governors of States is gradually taking form. It remains to be seen whether Governors' conferences will develop into a national institution. The advantage of these conferences as an aid to the coordination of government in a Nation composed of 48 states is obvious. It makes possible the exchange of valuable experience expensively acquired in legislation and executive action. It makes possible unification, or at least conformation of 48 diverse law codes. It makes for intra-national understanding...
...what they lose in intimacy and, occasionally, in essential nobility. Mestrovic's life is interesting in connection with his art. Born of Croatian parents?farming peasants? as a boy he wandered the fields, tending sheep, carving in wood. The long hours alone with his fleecy flock did much to develop in him the curious individuality which has always been his notable characteristic. At 18, he was apprenticed to a marble worker; and, a few years later, went to Vienna and took up the study of Art. There he fell under the influence of Franz Metzner, Austrian master. From that time...
...after one year's experience on a University team. He is a good stick-handler and when he gets confidence in his ability to get the opposing defence will probably he a high scorer. Chase is a fast skater, a very hard man to get by, but needs to develop a more powerful shot. He certainly is a fighter, though, and is always in the game...
...currencies. Large sums are reported to have been already advanced by banks to foreign industries and enterprises; at the right time, these banking advances will be funded into security issues and offered to the public. Thus far no very risky financing has been undertaken. The time for that to develop is later...
...Brackett has given to the Dental School the almost unparalleled length of service of fifty years. During many years he has received little or no remuneration, and yet himself subscribed liberally to the building fund when the new school was built. He has seen in his lifetime dentistry develop from something mainly an art into an important branch of the medical profession--a result to which his own labors have contributed. It is to be earnestly hoped that he may be commemorated by an endowment of a chair that will bear his name...