Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pleased was Secretary of Agriculture Arthur Mastick Hyde to be able to report to President Hoover a "gradual improvement" in husbandry. Farm incomes ($12,527,000,000) were higher than in the last three years. The decline in land values had been retarded. Fewer husbandmen were quitting their acres for the city. Some 1929 farm facts...
...Finance Committee. Master diamond cutter is Mr. Kahn, able to instruct his many workmen to such good effect that diamonds cleave well, cut well, in trade parlance "run" well for him. Mr. Kahn blamed the unsettled state of the diamond tariff (TIME, Aug. 26). Ably he pointed to the gradual slump in buying since last summer, due to the retail hope for lower schedules. Happily he pointed to the accidental under-stocking that has allowed Manhattan jewelers to weather the storm. Confidently he predicted renewed buying by stock-shy investors of safe, eternally valuable precious stones...
...clustering around that famed entrance -and exit-were powerless to record. The figure was James Francis Burke, general counsel of Republican National Committee. What balked the photographers was that the Burke leave-taking of President Hoover's inner political household was not a formal, visible occurrence but a gradual fading-out process, like Alice's Cheshire cat, "beginning with the end of the tail and ending with the grin that remained some time after the rest of it had gone...
...conference Admiral Robison, conciliatory, made three proposals: 1) gradual adoption of the three-year rule by the Military Academy; or 2) a four-year limit for West Point athletes; or 3) alternately playing two years under the West Point rule, two years under the Annapolis rule...
...gradual spread in the college of the system of general examinations and tutors from a small beginning in one department seventeen years ago to practically all undergraduate work speaks for itself. Carrying ahead the same concept of a liberal education from the undergraduate to the professional field the leaders of the School of Business Administration hope to give further stimulus to those men who are able to go ahead in a definite field of study. From the point of view of the university as a whole the extension of the idea of individual responsibility to the Business School is another...