Word: developement
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...ideals and conceptions have been generations, even centuries ahead of the ideals and conceptions of their contemporaries. It success is to consist in elevating humanity to the higher levels of the genius in his own single lifetime, there can never be a successful man. The minds of human beings develop steadily but slowly; the conception of a United States of America was impossible in the Middle Ages; the conception of a United States of the world is too big for most men to grasp in 1924. But this should not result in branding the few whose vision so far outstrips...
Major Moore explained that Harvard's lack of track success in recent years has been due to the unusually difficult situation arising from the fact that the schools from which the University draws its entrants do not develop track athletes. "The obviating of this difficulty," he said, "makes the promise of a successful season this year particularly encouraging...
...upward, with the keel in the groove of the heart, like an inverted V. The principal advantage is rapid and even submersion, the stability depending on the form and the distribution of pressure. It can submerge in 30 seconds without turning a degree, can cruise 20,000 miles and develop a speed of 23 knots an hour. It is 525 ft. long and 49 ft. wide, and carries large torpedo and gun armament. Germany has neither the money, nor the possibility (under present military control) of building such submarines, and the French, Italian and British Governments are interested...
...Senator's action must call up some interesting questions. Does farming develop impetuousness? Is radical bias ear-marked by wildness of behavior? The first is impossible to answer because in spite of the number of expert milkers in Congress, there are few professed farmers. The answer to the second must be no, for before and after the time Senator Sumner was eained many an exciting scene has been enacted within this august body by radical and conservative alike. Flying off the handle is ingrained in human nature and until evolution has evolved a race of intellectual and moral supermen, Congressmen...
Individual brilliance was the downfall of the Yankee sextet. They neglected to develop any sort of team play and depended upon their individual efforts to overcome their opponents...