Word: development
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking in Memorial Chapel yesterday morning, President Conant urged all students to keep on with their studies and "develop their potentialities to the utmost" as the best means of serving their country. "To that end we here at Harvard begin another academic year...
...would be hard on human rights. . . ." Four years ago the sugar parish of Assumption voted for Landon.) Scholarly, weather-beaten Planter David Washington Pipes, venerated in the sugar country because he grew the cane which routed mosaic disease (as Wallace made his reputation in the corn belt by helping develop hybrid corn), bolted to Willkie, ran for Congress on the Republican ticket, and his regular Democratic opponent withdrew in his favor...
...clearly approaching the crisis of the Battle for Britain. The Miltonian struggles in the air, which the world has been watching for weeks with strained necks, have passed from the Channel to London. There we have a savage foretaste of what war from the air may develop into, if the struggle is prolonged and human ferocity is aroused...
Like French public opinion, Free France itself is paralyzed. The wisest, most effective and popular leadership the country might produce could not overcome the one great fact that France is stagnant and waiting. It is waiting for some national ethos to develop, some popular base on which a government can find a true foothold, whether the ethos is communicated from the top or bottom. It is waiting for the time when it can become not half a country but one country. Above all it is waiting-and the Germans are deliberately making it wait-for the end of the Battle...
...papers were kind to him. One reason for that may have been that he had made a deal with the Fisher brothers. His shop is in their New Center Building, close to the General Motors and Fisher office buildings, an area which Banker-Sportsman Charles T. Fisher hopes to develop " into the Rockefeller Center of Detrot" To get Saks, Landlord Fisher made a rental deal contingent on the volume of business done. His gamble may turn out to be a prime investment. With 2,500 Detroit charge customers already on his Manhattan books, and with defense orders flooding the town...