Word: headway
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...always tries, even when worrying about the Sisyphean task of teaching the illiterate three-fifths of humanity (some 1,200,000,000) how to read. Since 1930 lean, leathery Frank Laubach, a Congregationalist missionary, has made considerable headway with that enormous task. He and unnumbered thousands of other people, using his special teaching charts, have armed unknown and unknowable scores of thousands of Asiatics, Africans and Latin Americans with the double-edged tool of literacy...
...seems that a student was having a very difficult time with Acct. He could not tell an asset from a liability and was making no headway with it. To the accounting exam he attached the following note...
...first major action in Tunisia involving U.S. troops was a defeat-the setback from Faïd Pass to Kasserine Pass (TIME, March 1). The second action, which ended last week, was a disappointment-the failure to make any appreciable headway in the hills near El Guettar. The third, which began last week, was downright embarrassing-the delaying of the British in the pass before Fondouk by the tardiness of U.S. troops. Out of these actions, U.S. troops have gained humility, determination, and the realization that all the fine points of war cannot be learned on training grounds...
...Amsterdam roof, after the show, Ziegfeld offered his Midnight Frolic, the most glamorous memory in Manhattan nightclub history. There John J. Pershing did some of his victory dancing and the jazz age got under its fanciest headway to the strains of the late Art Hickman's great band from California playing Avalon, Japanese Sandman and the Tishomingo Blues. There, after midnight, lemonades brought appalling Prohibition prices, the Follies chorus and principals entertained, and the most notable playboys of the postwar period started on their hair-losing ways...
...into hopeless love with her. Though she wears his pajamas, gets into his bed, makes a shambles of his wedding, calls her father into fleshly form to help, drives Best Man Robert Benchley half-witted, and witches Wooley first out of, then into, the Governorship, she makes little amatory headway until she brews a love philtre. Unluckily, she drinks it herself...