Word: progress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Singularly - perhaps I believe Mr. Altman is sincerely a truth seeker, but he will have to let go of his very elementary books before he can hope to progress. He hasn't learned to read the Bible yet, let alone criticize and dissect...
...party was on its way to the summer camp of Samuel R. McKelvie, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Nebraska. The last few miles of the journey were made in wagons and when the horses became wearied the President joined those who added the strength of their arms to the progress of the caravan...
...Only organized capital," Governor Farrington, has said, "could have furnished progress at so rapid a pace. . . . They [the "first families" discussed above] own or operate nearly all the valuable lands. Will the time come when these large holdings will have to break up under the pressure of a growing population? No one can look that far into the future...
...important, Dr. Millspaugh tightened that screw first. For example, His Highness the Sipahdar-i-Azam, onetime Prime Minister, was pressed for payment of millions in back taxes. Soon His Highness committed suicide, first proclaiming that his sole rea son for this act was "unendurable American extortion." Other nobles paid. Progress was made -slowly...
...steady plugging and with the co-operation of the Shah (whose revenue has been larger under Dr. Millspaugh than ever before) sufficient progress has been made so that the present budget shows a surplus. Time and again the Majlis (Parliament) has been ready to oust the U. S. Administrator-General of Finance; but many flukes have saved him. For example his dismissal was thought certain in 1924, just before the murder (TIME, July 28, 1924) of the U. S. Vice Consul Robert W. Imbrie. That incident so fired U. S. wrath that the Persian Government dared not further inflame...