Word: developing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some time ago plant scientists at Texas' Agricultural and Mechanical College started trying to develop a cotton plant whose bolls would contain plenty of seeds but little or no fibre. Last week they announced that, by patient crossbreeding of natural "mutants" or freaks, they had succeeded. They even had photographs of the process (see cuts...
...money," later worked briefly and unhappily as a Mirror reporter, spent a year in France. Now he is studying at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, wants to get into politics "on the reforming side." Toward newspaper work he feels an "intense hostility." Reason : successful newspapermen develop a competitive "thirst for power...
...upon some of these men. At any rate, it is the Varsity future of these Yardlings with Wes Fesler that is all-important. Any one of the men on the squad has a chance of making a definite contribution to Fesler's Varsity. The subs of this season may develop into the stars of next season, because many a Freshman reserve has risen beyond some of the regulars in his class in the Varsity spotlight...
...drawback to the plan is the fact that there is, at present; no trophy. If "athletics for all" is to be furthered, some kind alumnus must donate a trophy whose slight cost would be infinitesimal compared to the good it would do in spurring each Harvard undergraduate on to develop a "mens sana in corpore sano...
...past period of history is hardly more valid than a condemnation of the history department on the score that it still gives a course on the Renaissance. "Living significance," as the Crimson calls it, is something which cannot be taught; which it is incumbent upon the individual to develop within himself; and which may vary with the individual...