Word: progress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course and to break down the feeling of close personal contact on which all successful teaching must rest. In addition, by thus twitting him in public on a matter in which he knows himself somewhat weak, you have done your best toward fortifying any tendency which might delay his progress in learning to teach...
...Subscriber Riddle, acute, observant, fear for "TIME'S Typical Style" because he scents plagiarists, pirates, copycats. TIME has created no set, wooden "style," which could be aped, but instead strives toward that future medium of expression in which words shall be best fitted to deeds. TIME welcomes progress-by whomever made-toward this goal...
...Council took up once more the five-year-old Transylvanian land dispute between Rumania and Hungary. Just as some progress seemed about to be made, last week, Rumanian Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu burst into tears, and threatened to withdraw if pressed to make concessions. Matter postponed to the 50th Council session next June...
...worst when they write about men whose deeds are too gigantic and too inherently theatrical to fit the neat and flashing patterns of the stage. Napoleon's hundred days were too dramatic for the drama. Forgetting this, B. Harrison Orkow, who previously wrote something called Milgrim's Progress, has made them into a tidy and pompous play, in which Lionel Atwill struts for what seems sometimes to be an interminable two and three quarter hours. At last, great days done, he expires in St. Helena. Pretty Selena Royle, in long becoming dresses, plays nicely as Madame Walewska...
...well worth a trip to the ninth floor of the Annex Building at Jordan Marsh's to see the collection of some two hundred modern French paintings which forms part of the general exposition of Art in Trade now in progress throughout the store. The paintings are shown under the official auspices of the Association Francaise d'Expansion et d'Echanges Artistiques and are a selection of works shown in Paris in the Salon d'Automne. They are all by contemporary French artists. With possible exceptions like Andre, Denis, d'Espagnat, Vlaminck, there are few names that approach being famous...