Word: progress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little over half their trek. They are now in the state of Missouri, having plodded steadily onward ever since the fourth of March. It is hardly to be supposed that the reading public, long-suffering as it is, could have stomached a daily blurb as to the progress of the caravan. This, too, is as the A B C to Mr. Pyle. But only wait until the final sprint breaks loose somewhere in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, and the handful of hardy soles left cuts loose. Then will come the deluge, Syndicated throughout the length and breadth of the land...
...competence of the Englishman to judge a national problem of education that has neither parallel nor similarity throughout the world, is seriously to be questioned. It is fortuitously true in the present instance that an English student who spent a year at Princeton has signified faith in an achieved progress that seventy-five years before could only be hoped for by another Englishman who was, to say the least, conservative in his hopes...
...United States, however, a complete system of cataloguing was inaugurated when the number of volumes collected in libraries was comparatively small. Hence efficiency was effected early, and further progress has followed with greater ease...
...Bishop McConnell, presented their 5,000-word report, it was adopted without important revisions. The report declared that it was the obligation of the governments of economically advanced countries to make certain that less advanced peoples were protected from social injustice, and that they share the fruits of economic progress. Further, the report suggested that public loans, to be used in undeveloped areas, be made only with the knowledge and approval of the League of Nations, and subject to the provisions which it prescribes...
...colleges, on the comparative grades obtained by ten of their respective representatives in a single, albeit general examination. For one thing such judgment further enhances the cardinal importance of examinations and grades a the criteria of education. For another it sets up a definite, tangible measure of comparative educational progress at best a matter of wide interpretative possibility and individual temperament...