Word: headway
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...good girl; I expect a man to make one mistake-but only one." Betty Compson, looking her prettiest, is probably so well-behaved because the picture was directed by her future husband, James Cruze. The story of this girl, angling for a husband among various flirtatious businessmen, gathers headway slowly, as respectably riotous films often do. But it is true to life in that the girl, faced with marrying the man who has wealth and position to give her (Huntly Gordon), or the man who has nothing but his drunken habits (Percy Marmont), chooses the latter...
...League has already settled many serious disputes, according to the speaker. "It has cooperated with the nations in time of peace to make such headway as single nations never made before against starvation, disease, moral evils, financial troubles, and political disorganizations. And yet we hold...
...over the world there is a pressing demand for cheap cotton. In the past, America has supplied this demand, but unless headway can be made against the boll weevil menace, this country can produce only high-priced cotton...
...most votes lined up for the Democratic Convention of any candidate, but he has far fewer than the necessary 729(one-third). New York is adverse to his advances and he places his main confidence in the West and South, if Ford and Underwood do not make too much headway against...
...after midnight last night by a four-alarm fire on Western Avenue, which seemed from all but the Freshman Dormitories to be on Soldiers Field. Starting at 11.45 o'clock, the conflagration, which nearly consumed the J. D. McPhee Company's Stairway and Cabinet factory and woodsheds, quickly gained headway. More than 2000 people witnessed the conflagration...