Word: progress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...several reasons, some basic, some specific. Specifically he objected because S. 3555 provided that the fee might be levied upon the farmer's product any where between the field it grew in and the place where it was consumed. Naturally, at whatever point in the commodity's progress from farmer to consumer the fee was levied, the commodity's price would rise automatically. Ultimate payment of the fee would thus be by the consumer, not by the producer. In other words, the "equalization fee" was not a self-help device for the farmers but a subtle sales...
...bodies of the murdered in the Rue Morgue are long dust, but the problem of crime and its prevention lives on. Three contributions to criminology have appeared within the fortnight, important in that they light up the direction of progress, curious in that they show the President of the United States flouting the figures of his nation's experts...
...opposing parties. Critics of the proposed enlargement will find in the enclosure of the open end of the Stadium no alarming stimulus to huger crowds and to overemphasis of football beyond its proper sphere. There will be a slight gain in seating capacity to satisfy the advocates of progress along sport lines, and at all events the plan will insure a certain permanence of the status of the Stadium infinitely preferable to the old haphazard system of temporary stands...
...noise of a suction street-sweeper engaged in nocturnal activity near Harkness Hall provided the incentive for the demonstration. A group of students resented the presence of the machine and attempted to halt its progress. In the ensuing disorder, street-cars were besieged, and their trolleys disconnected. One of the Yale men was speedily arrested and led jail-wards, but this act served only to center the attention of the crowd upon the police officers and a force of rescuers marched in pursuit of the captive. A frontal assault upon the New Haven police headquarters, covered by a brief barrage...
...progress of Harvard's first spring Reading Period reveals a happy coincidence that seems almost to indicate divine intervention on the behalf of the students. For what less than a gift of the gods is the arrival in Boston during the weeks that lectures are suspended of such an abundance of dramatic offerings as the present spring has produced? That crusader for the better things of the theater. Walter Hampden, has already done successful battle with Shakespeare, Then and Browning and departed for other regions. Eva in Gallienne, leader of the New York Civic Repertory Theater, sill touches the tragic...