Word: gradualism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Illustrating the gradual progress of bookbinding, the display contains many of the most valued items in the Treasure Room of Widener, including one book studded with gems, early manuscripts with wood-board covers, unique embroidered bindings, and examples of the leather work of some of the greatest early European book designers...
...Steel's third quarter earnings were $30,617,638 compared to $36,173,682 for the previous quarter and $13,636,177 for the third quarter of 1936.* Said the corporation's statement: "Demand for steel products during July, August and September showed a gradual decline in volume each month.... Operations for the third quarter as measured by finished product output averaged 73.6% of total capacity, compared with 88.4% in the previous quarter and 63.6% in the third quarter of 1936.... In recent weeks a rather marked falling off in shipments to customers occurred, resulting in an October...
...educational romanticist Hutchins of Chicago University predicted that the national scholarships would be unsuccessful. Unfortunately the theorist did not take into consideration the practicality of the scientist, for the gradual introduction and extension of the plan have insured its success. President Conant felt that the idea provided a chance, well worth society's while to offer, for a few individuals of exceptional character and ability who lacked financial means to develop their intellect in a great university such as Harvard...
Fortnight ago many Germans hoped that the postponement of the trial of Rev. Dr. Martin Niemöller, defiant Anti-Nazi Protestant pastor (TIME, Aug. 16), forecast the gradual abandonment of the Reich's campaign against all religious groups that run afoul the Nazi ideology...
...prove in the end, there was no doubt that it had shown Leon Trotsky, for eight years an exile in Turkey, France and Norway, a disowned and virtually impotent revolutionist, to be now the most important revolutionary extremist in the world. In 1933 Trotskyist followers in Russia, seeing the gradual abandonment of all plans for the world revolution by orthodox Stalinists, asked secretly for what they called the Fourth International. No one took this seriously until July 1936, when the Fourth International set up a committee in Paris. Most observers, many Communists still belittle the Fourth International, yet last week...