Word: development
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Popular Front is the Radical Party of conservative-minded Senator Florencio Duran. No more radical than Daladier's Radical Socialists in France, Duran's Party is a conglomeration of big & little businessmen, professionals and skilled workmen. They represent the aspirations of the Chilean bourgeoisie to develop their own industry and commerce, to get a share of the business now in the hands of foreign capital, to break up the semi-feudalism of agriculture. Their struggle against reaction led to their alliance with Chile's Socialists and Communists to elect Don Tinto President in 1938, but many...
...with linotype and offset presses (laboriously sheet-fed) are not more than 10% lower. But initial costs are cut too, may bring the total saving to 15%. So pleased with offset is James Fitzgibbon that he plans to look around for some more small towns without newspapers, try to develop a chain of offset dailies...
Senior Bob Fulton improved by leaps and bounds last year and is certain to develop into a polished receiver during the coming baseball campaign. Bob Regan, Charley Spreyer, and Bill Parsons are the other catching prospects...
...sense that they were good men and will be hard to replace, but it was good in a way because all the men came from well-organized and (mostly) Dixieland bands--which meant so far, Jack hadn't been able to develop any distinctive style...
...rejects the notion that for the accomplishment of these aims one curriculum is as good as another so long as it is well taught. To become acquainted with the common tradition of human experience, the student must be required to expose himself to the broad areas of knowledge. To develop independent intellectual tools, he must be encouraged to pursue thoroughly some limited field of learning. In other words, there is a definite content to liberal education; and the present failure of Harvard College is that it supplies the specialized part of this content to the neglect of the general part...