Word: progress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are two schools of thought and proposed action. One, headed by the U. S., seeks to exclude major political issues, tries to keep the Conference and its permanent agency* in a rut of cumulative, bureaucratic progress: pamphlets . . . scholarships . . lectures infinitudes of supplemental Pan-American societies . . . emotion . . . soft soap...
...ruling requiring all matches to be played off on the date set for them is expected to expedite the progress of the tournament...
...Progress loomed even in the perfunctory opening of the Imperial Diet, last week, by the ugly but sublime "Son of Heaven," His Majesty the Tenno (Emperor) Hirohito. All present knew that the present session is the final one of the last diet to be elected under a law which enfranchised only 3,000,000 property owning Japanese. The new law, to become operative when a new Diet is elected this spring, enfranchises 9,600,000 adult males. Hereafter the unenfranchised will consist of women and of those men who are either paupers or receive charitable aid from the state...
Commercial progress was signalized by the fact that Japan has recovered her financial equilibrium after weathering the appalling panic of last spring. The series of business failures which then occurred forced even the great house of Suzuki into bankruptcy (TIME, April 18), and toppled the cabinet of Premier Reijiro Wakatsuki (TIME, May 2) who has been succeeded by Premier Baron Güchi Tanaka...
Nomenclature. The association made some progress on the difficult problem of naming germs...