Word: development
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Pandit Nehru dropped into a Lucknow medical laboratory for a lung test, found he was able to inhale 5% more air than normal for a man of his height (5 feet, 6½ inches). Said he: "If I take my breathing exercise for three days I can develop my capacity still more...
...radio proclaimed last fortnight that a "reformation of Christianity" is under way in China. A declaration issued in July and signed by 1,527 pastors, students, theologians and church leaders, it announced, had warned that "imperialist" countries would try to use "Christianity to carry out provocative, agitational activities and develop reactionary power." To prevent this, the declaration had recommended that Christian churches should be promptly purged of all "imperialistic influence," deprived of all support from abroad,* subjected to compulsory unification of "various sects" and compulsory indoctrination against "imperialism, feudalism and bureaucratic capitalism...
...attitude of the Fine Arts Department is still based on the general University standards. "These courses," said Kuhn, "are not to develop the technical skill in a professional sense. There are art schools for that purpose...
...provost, represented the University at the Washington meeting. The delegates agreed that the "present purpose of education is to help fulfill the nation's short-range need for technical and military personnel, while at the same time guarding the nation's long-range welfare by continuing to develop leaders in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences...
...badly injured. But game Jane Froman refused to let anybody ring down the curtain on her career. She had started on that career as a student at the University of Missouri, when, as a journalism major, she wangled the lead in a college musical. She continued to develop her home-trained voice at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, helped pay her way by singing both blues and classics on Cincinnati's WLW. By the mid-'30s Jane Froman had become one of the most popular radio stars in the U.S., had appeared in two Ziegfeld Follies...