Word: developes
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...that the roads are back in private hands, the old malady has begun to develop again. The country is too big to support two hundred roads on a profit-making basis. Therefore, we have the cry for mergers. Let the strong roads absorb the weak; guard against the old game of stockjobbing, secret rebates, " milking" and " watering," but give the people the benefit of a trust without its monopoly privileges...
...contrary have gained as the rivals lost, until now old Nathan Lattimer wishes to purchase the last bit of property which the Deans hold, to use for a modern business block. Elizabeth Dean refuses to be driven from her little millinery shop which serves also as a home. To develop complications she is betrothed to John, the unfaithful son and heir of old Lattimer. His efforts to win her love again enrage his father and apparently are doomed to failure...
...spelling, history, geography, and natural sciences, taught in their simple relations. But Dr. Eliot's program goes farther: it seeks to awaken the pupil's interest, to cultivate the power of seeing and describing, to teach manual dexterity and expression by word and musical note; above all, to develop individuality rather than to compress into uniformity. It is ambitious; it does not meet the plea for greater economy. But unlike the other programs, it considers the child. In the tender years when the nature of the child is expanding, when its vivid imagination is struggling for expression, the curriculum must...
...trustees which back them, should signify a willingness to welcome foreign boys. An international agency, such as the Junior Red Cross, might then very well undertake the business of selecting the boy representatives on both sides. What American students in school and college should do is to develop the welcoming habit of mind. Then if our schools are permitted to make the generous venture, we students here at home will be ready to do our share in welcoming these youths who a decade or two hence may prove to be throughout their own lands un-official ambassadors of peace...
...condition, which took twelve hundred years to develop in Greek athletics, has arisen in our own "athletic period" in half a century. The tramp athlete, "fixing" of officials, pot hunters, were not unknown in Hellas. At last the professional trainer appeared and with him the training table and the specialist. To take care of them and the crowds who wanted to see them, huge stadiums were built. The whole system became commercialized...