Word: progress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rose toward the end of the season to first string ranks, and in the desperate Crimson defense against a more powerful Yale eleven which brought forth the famed 0.0 tie of that year he stood out as the moot stalwart of all barriers in the path of the Eli progress...
...this squad of ends is shaping up after a week of preliminary practice, and to what advantage it will appear in the important contests of the year are two different questions. But little information can be gleaned as to present showings from the heavily guarded practice sessions now in progress; what future showings will be is impossible to predict...
...students were dispersed, the fire could not be perceived until the whole surrounding air began to be illuminated by it. The fire was conjectured to have started in the room used by the General Court; thence it burst into the Library. The books easily submitted to the progress of the flame, which spread through the whole building, and in a short time this venerable monument to the piety of our ancestors was reduced to a heap of ashes. The other Colleges, Stoughton Hall and Massachusetts Hall, were in the danger of sharing the same fate... But by the blessing...
Instancing progress in amity with Great Britain, France, Spain, Italy, the President mentioned also that the relations with "Hispanic America" were in unfavorable contrast with those with the U. S. Said he: "I can say that relations with the United States, which are so fundamentally important in our national life for patent reasons of commercial intercourse and neighborliness, unfortunately assume a character of indecision, frequently resulting in disagreement." Making it clear that he was referring to foreign oil investments, Senor Calles remarked that some petroleum men had assumed a rebellious attitude to the Government that "no independent country could accept...
...password, "Howdy, Pap!" were not entirely laid aside before the Mooses sat down to discuss their concrete program. The word "pap" does not connote, to Mooses, a bland sort of mush or gruel fed to infants. When Moose greets Moose he merely pronounces the initials of "Purity, Aid, Progress." There was, of course, a gorgeous parade, which rain could not discourage, through streets which the Philadelphia Moose lodge (the largest, with 30,000 members) had spent some $35,000 to decorate becomingly with moose statues on pedestals, an arch of loyalty, flags, bunting...