Word: development
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...social or racial groups. Children tend to be like their parents in hereditary capacity; if their endowments are weak, not even a college education can make them bright. "In the limited environments of isolated and marginal people," said Mr. Osborn, "good hereditary capacities do not have a chance to develop as they would in a better environment. An environment equalized at a higher level would show up a superior heredity in great numbers of persons now at a low level of development...
Buck Teeth, Cauliflower Ears. A popular branch of veterinary medicine is dog and cat beautification. Dr. Alan C. Secord of Toronto corrects buck teeth in dogs with wire braces, like those worn by children. Dr. Hadley Carruthers Stephenson of Cornell said that dogs may develop cauliflower ears by "scrubbing" their itching ears on the ground. Remedy: plastic surgery...
Burgey Ayres has a strangle hold on the pivot job and should develop into a standout center after the important experience he gained in 1939. Ted Lyman and Tom Grover will be held in reserve. Flanking Ayres will be a pair of rugged Juniors, Dick Pfister and Chub Peabody, who progressed by leaps and bounds as Sophomores and in spring practice. They are beginning to get the hang of complicated cross-blocking assignments and should take greater strides toward stardom this fall. Joel Ferris, Jim Grunig, and Sophomore Sharpe are an average group of guard subs...
This week, back at their home stations, National Guardsmen waited for the President's call for a year's active service, had the prospect of longer and bigger maneuvers to brush up basic combat lessons, develop the kind of teamwork the Germans have. Regulars hoped Congress would soon pass a conscription bill. For-besides men and equipment-what the Army needs is practice, practice, more practice. No Army man forgets that it took the Germans seven years...
...generations the defense of the U. S. has faced west. Into the naval bases at Cavite, P. I. and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii have gone 75-80 millions of dollars for defense against an invader from the Orient. But today, although the U. S. Army and Navy are beginning to develop Alaska air and sea bases as another bulwark against a thrust from Asia, the U. S. defensively faces east toward Europe. For if Germany displaces Britain as mistress of the seas, the U. S. will have lost its insurance policy against trouble in the Atlantic: the British fleet. Until...