Word: progress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reported U. S. Comrade John ("Jack") Wilson: "The Red Cells in the U. S. Navy now number ten which I regard as showing considerable progress since last year, when there were only three...
Here, defended from the march of progress by the sturdy barrier of Judge, Junior, the good old customs will go on. What does it matter if the authors are strayed revellers, what if the number is diminishing of those who still care enough to illuminate their college, their class and their own family name with the last glints of a faded splendor...
...cure the disease if administered shortly after the infection. These facts known, the disease was conquered. The same process must be applied to West Africa. For over two years a Com mission of the Rockefeller Foundation has been at work on the problem in the U. S. and Africa. Progress has been held up because none of the experimental animals would contract the African form of yellow fever. In the end it was Dr. Noguchi him self who went to Accra on the West coast of Africa to experiment, was there taken to the hospital with yellow fever...
...Raskob exhibited the greathearted attitude of modern big business: "It is important to our country that Mr. Ford succeed. He controls so many sources of raw material and specializes in low-priced cars which are essential and important that if he were not in the business, the economic progress of our country would suffer. It is an actual fact that this progress depends in no small measure upon Ford being in the field of production." Then, with what might have been either sarcasm or concern, he added that he was surprised at Henry Ford's statement that...
...Such progress has been inevitable. Education has never been supplied freely to everyone: it is only the requirements that have differed. And after a period which is comparatively remarkable short, in America the transition has almost been completed from the aristocratic aristocracy of birth to the democratic aristocracy of brain...