Word: developing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...sulfurous editorials the News & Courier repeatedly attacked the Santee-Cooper River hydroelectric project, which pushing politicians set afoot to get $40,000,000 out of the New Deal for South Carolina (TIME, June 12). He described it as "a set-up of politicians without known qualifications to build and develop industrial plants," called it a project "shot through with extravagance and waste...
...took 75 years for the Lincoln legend to develop to the point where playing Abraham Lincoln (in Abe Lincoln in Illi nois) could be a peak in the career of an actor like Raymond Massey. The Edison legend is just beginning in the movies which Edison invented. What the rest of the legend would be like depended in part on who interpreted the first installment...
...Medicine is a profession which, perhaps more than any other, involves personal contact," he explained. You've got to be a man to be a doctor, and you can't develop personally by spending all your time over books...
Hale continued, "One of the ways you can develop leadership and self-confidence is by going out for extra-curricular activities. Of course, you must not neglect your studies, but outside activities force you against hurdles, and it is doing the hard things that really makes...
Boss Edward Hull Crump, of Memphis, Tenn.. once offered to guarantee a bright young Washington attorney a handsome law practice if he would settle in Mistuh Crump's town. All the lawyer had to promise in return was to develop an intelligent, invigorating opposition to the all-powerful Crump political organization. Nothing came of this ingenious idea for keeping the Crumpets in fighting trim, so Ed Crump had to go on putting up with Tom Collier...