Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Harvard has already swallowed Radcliffe intellectually, the argument runs, and there is a danger that it will swallow it socially, too. Picture the poor defenceless female outnumbered five to one, trying to make her way in the august councils of the Liberal Union; far better that she be allowed develop her executive and organizational talents in the smaller confines of a Radcliffe club...
...keep him on and one game comes and he pinch hits in the winning run. That would be swell, but how can I tell now what he can do it. It's pretty tough to work with 50 men all season, you know. If he had a chance to develop...
...develop the Vidicon primarily for house detectives and G-men. It was aiming at the important field of "industrial television," where the Vidicon will have vast importance. In the roaring, naming innards of modern industry there are many goings-on too dangerous for human eyes to watch. A cheap, expendable Vidicon can creep up close to a new machine being tested "to destruction." It can brave the flood of gamma rays from a nuclear reactor. It can ride on a guided missile or watch the detonating mechanism of an atomic bomb. Up to the time when it "dies," the faithful...
Hopeless as it seemed, Freddie's case was studied carefully at the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in West Orange. Dr. Kessler showed Mrs. Thomason how to exercise Freddie to develop his trunk muscles, rolling him from side to side and making him twist as much as possible. Back home in Magnolia, where her husband is a radio repairman, Mrs. Thomason exercised Freddie for 45 minutes, twice a day, for almost a year...
...finest works, but paradoxically, one that sounds least like Haydn. Already in his late 50s, Haydn went to London, heard the choral singing in the huge Handel Festival of 1791, and returned to Vienna feeling liberated from the classical form he himself had done so much to develop. When he got around to composing this work, seven years later, he followed his predecessor Handel's example, wrote to conform more to a text (a theme from Milton's Paradise Lost) than to classical form. In so doing, he wrote music that hints at many a thing to come...