263 Verbs to Use for the Word developments

[Footnote 3: I have recently traced out the development of the "coccoliths" from a diameter of 1/7000th of an inch up to their largest size (which is about 1/1000th), and no longer doubt that they are produced by independent organisms, which, like the Globigerinoe, live and die at the bottom of the sea.]

Abraham could only pass his hand over his brow, uneasily shuffle his maligned heels over the floor and await further developments; for he did not have the slightest conception as to "what they were driving at.

Many of the starry snow-flowers, out of which these banners are made, fall before they are ripe, while most of those that do attain perfect development as six-rayed crystals glint and chafe against one another in their fall through the frosty air, and are broken into fragments.

Despite his efforts, Lorenzo could not prevent its development being checked during the papal-Neapolitan quarrel with Florence.

Toward midday, cloud, wind, and rain reached their highest development.

But with the spreading of wheat came the dawn of a higher civilization; and the story of wheat down to modern times showed the development of man.

Only those who have followed the development of mutual obligations between the Entente Powers are able to understand the role which Russia's two comrades (France and England)to say nothing at all of Italywould have played in this conference.

It's fascinating to watch the development of so fine a mind which has lain almost entirely fallow to the culture of schools.

The true policy, in my humble judgment, is to throw the whole weight of responsibility on those who exercise the real power, for, after all, the sense of responsibility is the best security against the abuse of power; and, as respects the connection, to act and speak on this hypothesisthat there is nothing in it to check the development of healthy national life in these young communities.

A wonderfully suggestive thought, opening up views of the nature of the chemical processes of the living body, which have hardly yet received all the development of which they are capable.

He urges that a Norwegian culture and literature can not be created out of nothing and to promote their development it is absolutely necessary to continue the associations which have hitherto been common to both Norway and Denmark, and thus to keep in rapport with the general literature of Europe.

How can we best aid development into the wholeness or healthiness and the scope of sanity and wisdom?

Bacon, Sandys, Southampton and the Liberal leaders of the House of Commons had implanted in the ideas of the colonists the spirit of constitutionalism, which was destined to influence profoundly the whole development of the American colonies, and finally to culminate in the Constitution of the United States.

A most competent observer, M. Cohn, who studied the development of the Empusa very carefully, was utterly unable to discover in what manner the smallest germs of the Empusa got into the fly.

And when the infant is afterwards racked with pain, and a night of disquiet alarms the mother, the doctor is sent for, and the nurse, covering her dereliction by a falsehood, the consequence of her gluttony is treated as a disease, and the poor infant is dosed for some days with medicines, that can do it but little if any good, and, in all probability, materially retard its physical development.

Happily more than might seem possible considering the enormous modern development of the place.

we quoted the biologist educator's ideal conception of the surroundings best suited to bring about right development.

A wise wife will give him the loving, full-of-faith, appreciative atmosphere which encourages development.

As the internal secretions influence the history of the food in the body, they affect development in the womb indirectly as well as directly.

There is nothing more sublime than law; holding unseen the hearts and interests of millions, protecting their rights, and giving them full, happy development.

We grant space and time to young plants and animals because we know that, in accordance with the laws that live in them, they will develop properly and grow well; arbitrary interference with their growth is avoided because it would hinder their development; but the young human being is looked upon as a piece of wax, a lump of clay, which man can mould into what he pleases.

He is the one who is adjusting the new world-powers and the new world-relations, over-seeing the development of our country, and planning for its laws and commerce.

The thirty years between our first regular English plays and Shakespeare's first comedy witnessed a development of the drama which astonishes us both by its rapidity and variety.

"You represent an amazing development.

To understand the developments of the devotion, it is important to grasp the fact that the Ave Maria was merely a form of greeting.

263 Verbs to Use for the Word  developments