Word: development
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German Army was disbanded at Versailles. Relieved of the sniffs and sneers of elderly Junker leadership, the younger officers of the then small Reichswehr were wholly free to develop new ideas. Into the ranks, when Hitler decreed conscription in 1935, poured determined, fanatical youths, proud, as most Germans are, of the profession of arms...
Eugene's case, said Dr. Fabing, exploded the old theory that epilepsy destroys the brain. For as his body grew, Eugene's brain also expanded and unfolded. As long as epilepsy kept it under, it could not develop as a thinking machine...
Three all time greats will perform in the Stadium, pits and on the Stadium cinders. Georgetown's gargantuan Al Blozis, a Sophomore, who is 6 feet 5 inches tall and who weighs 240 pounds, and has a well nigh perfect physique, may develop to be one of America's greatest weight men. He already holds the American record in the 160-pound shot put at 55 ft. 10 1/2 in., and he may break this record, the I.C.A.A.A.A. record, and perhaps Jack Torrance's World Record in the Stadium pit, which this week has been enlarged to accommodate Blozis...
...again, gaining momentum. The week ended with heavy selling that broke the industrials eight points to 122.43. Export and war-baby stocks were not the only casualties. Fear spread that closing of European markets would depress U. S. income, especially of farmers, that any subsequent national defense boom would develop at the expense of general consumer purchasing power & freedom to use it. Down sharply for the week were consumer-goods stocks like Chrysler (19⅜ points to 62⅛), General Foods (7 points to 41), Schenley (4⅜ points...
...that she will not develop an isolated viewpoint," well-developed Shirley Temple, 11, terminated her contract (she will get a final payment of $300,000), retired from the screen...