Word: progress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Progress. The parley sessions were held in secret last week, and the absolute maximum of progress attained seemed to be that the U. S. delegates persuaded the British to put off, at least temporarily, discussion apropos of revising the Washington Treaty and to proceed first with negotiation on other points...
Three U. S. Senators. The unfolding progress of the Chinese Nationalist advance upon Peking (TIME, March 28 et seq.) loomed with such vital portent last week that three U. S. Senators were busy in China, making personal investigations on the spot. Senator Hiram Bingham, Connecticut Republican, pushed his tour of China (TIME, May 9) to the extreme of venturing 400 miles up the great river Yangtze, last week into the very heart of "Chinese Communist" territory. Since he traveled on a U. S. warboat, the Senator was effusively greeted at Hankow by the "Communist" Foreign Minister Eugene Chen (TIME...
...week marked the return to the public ear of onetime Col. William Mitchell, deposed assistant chief of the Army Air Service (TIME, Nov. 2, 1925, e seq.). It has long been Mr Mitchell's conviction that airplane development has made battleships obsolete, that Navy men have retarded aviation progress lest the fleets of the future should be exclusively fleets of the air. During last month's Army-Navy war game off the coast of New England (TIME, May 30), Mr Mitchell sniffed at the folly of continuing to base military strategy on the operations of "archaic" warships...
...forget emotions so fierce as those which the World War produced. And yet they are forgotten. Mr. and Mrs. Smith would simply not believe you if you repeated to them from memory what they were saying about war ten years ago. Yet if you could somehow reverse the progress of time the Mr. Smith of 1917, should he hear the Mr. Smith of 1927, would pronounce the latter a traitor and a coward...
...darkness made it extremely difficult to follow the progress of the trial, and the times taken at intermediate distances were uncertain, but it was estimated that two miles were passed in 10.45, and the full course...