Word: progress
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...latest of the long list of nations that have resented the new idea in Schrecklichkeit is Turkey. The progress of the Turkish Communist Party, financed by Russian funds, is claimed by the Soviet Foreign Minister Tchitcherin to be more remarkable than that of Russia itself. The Soviet hand has shown itself in the big commercial centers of South America, and France has one of the largest proportions of Communist-minded people in the world. Germany has a similar problem and China has already seen her coolies read and run--amuck. The newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst are running...
...that one section of the article in the typewritten text of his speech which stated, "At their best, lawyers are of just about as much value to society as an army of cross-word puzzle fans; at their all too frequent worst, they are a deadly drug on social progress...
...named by an English author some time ago the unfulfilled obligations of medical science were two in number: to discover a remedy for cancer and to learn how to grow hair. While progress toward the first of these objectives has been slow, a beauty expert of New York has already achieved the second. The fruit of eighteen years study is a process revealed on Wednesday by which he can anchor any number of hairs to the scalp by means of tiny gold springs...
...plan, allows the natives to elect their own Governor General, and would leave a high commissioner, with instructions to pilot the Philippine ship of state out of international storms, as the only American link with Island administration. The United States would then have what the opponents of the further progress of the plan call "responsibility without authority." And the fact that President Coolidge has yet to consult anyone connected with the Wood administration over the appointment of a new governor-general is regarded as significant of a changed executive point of view...
...Committee on the Choice Of Electives. It consists of tabulated results concerning the number of men concentrating in the various fields along with the number of candidates for distinction and honors in each. As such it is at once the most sensitive and most accurate instrument for registering the progress of Harvard's educational system. The figures compiled for this year and printed elsewhere in the columns of the CRIMSON today indicate several marked trends...