Word: progress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Turkish progress under the kinetic impulsion of President Mustafa Kemal Pasha, the Ghazi, the Victorious One, was so rapid, last week, as to dazzle if not perturb Occidentals...
This vaccine depends for its efficacy on the slow progress of the rabies germs which travel along nerve fibres to the brain; there entering the nerve cells; first stimulating, then destroying them. In dogs, the incubation period* runs from eight days to a year, with an average of two to eight weeks; in man from twelve to 90 days with an average of three to eight weeks...
...strike of the tobacco workers in Greece. These stories which emanated from Vienna and Belgrade told of scores being killed and hundreds wounded in riots in various Macedonian cities; of the mutiny of a portion of the fleet; of a Communist revolution which was declared to be in progress; of fighting behind barricades in the streets of Piraeus, and of other dire happenings...
...Coolidge always knew more definitely what he did not want than what he wanted. His messages were often vague on the positive side but crystalline in their clarity about his dislikes and aversions. ... He is negation incarnate. As President, he bestraddled progress face backward...
...number of shady political deals which have discredited it." Mr. Colvin, who was in Chicago arranging for the Prohibition Party's annual convention there this week, said that the Prohibition plan this year would be to back a Dry Democrat who might hamper Smith's progress in one or more States in the Solid South...