Word: progress
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Union Pool and Billiard Committee announces that the first round of the billiard tournament, now in progress, must be played off tonight. The handicaps are posted in the Union, and all contestants are urged to turn in their scores as soon as possible. The "Round Robin" in pool is being played...
...annual report of the Harvard Library, the Director, Professor Archibald C. Coolidge, points out the progress of one of its most notable years. He says, among other things, that there has never been greater activity in the various branches, and that the accessions have never been so numerous and valuable. He also mentions the Library's debt to Mrs. George D. Widener Memorial is far the largest in its history...
...scene of the first act showing the Bazaar Street of the Tailors. If any fault is to be found it must be that the play contains too many interpolations in the way of songs and the like, which, while entertaining in themselves, add little or nothing to the progress of the play and very seriously try the patience of an audience which is asked to be seated at seven-forty and is not released till nearly four hours later. "Enough is a feast...
...Grenfell has given up his time, since he went into the Newfoundland region, to establishing hospitals and improving the economic condition of the country. The number of deaths from tuberculosis, the most extensive disease, is being lessened by the establishment of "open air" hospitals, and glass-walled wards. Such progress has been made that in one of the hospitals the chief Marconi operator now has an X-ray machine. Dr. Grenfell has built several mills and machine shops which, even though operating at a loss financially, are giving the people many needed conveniences...
...Rapid progress is being made in the work on the new Stadium bridge. The piles are all driven for the two centre supports, and the sheathing of boards is nearly in place, ready to receive the cement. Some delay has been caused in driving the piles for the end supports, on account of the necessity of sheathing the banks of the river to prevent them from caving in. The work of cementing on the two centre supports, however, will probably begin a week from Monday...