Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Mr. Lucius N. Littauer for the purpose, the university authorities are going ahead with plans for the new school based on the commission's recommendations, and the country is soon to witness a wholly new "educational adventure." We have no doubt it will watch its progress with the keenest of interest and with every hope of its success...
...Georgian era of George VI. It was not an occasion which required His Majesty to open Parliament in state with a Speech from the Throne, the last such required speech having been read loud and clear by Edward VIII (TIME, Nov. 9). Today George VI is making rapid further progress with doctors and vocalists to overcome his defective speech (TIME, Dec. 21), and the Duke of Kent was recently pressed into service to read an overseas royal radio broadcast to New Zealand. Omens were that the whole House of Commons will loyally cooperate to avoid unpleasant subjects until after...
...time: "It is ... the story of emotions, methods, and motives in that crucial zone of law and government bordering both upon the courts and the executive." The Attorney General, sitting in his red-carpeted room in the handsome new Justice Building, is justifiably proud of his office's progress since the great, corset-wearing William Pinkney quit the job because he did not wish to live in Washington, and since William Wirt had to beg for two washstands. Not until 1822 did the Attorney General have official quarters, then only one room in the War Department. Not until...
...part of the country they may be living, the opportunity for training at one of our great historic seats of learning is a matter of distinct national importance, for only as genuine talent is discovered and cultivated can we properly capitalize our human resources, only thus can we make progress out of the intellectual mediocrity which characterizes so much of our education...
Midyear period or no midyear period, this world of ours continues its irresistible progress toward perdition. Herewith we append a brief survey of events in the world today, which, depending on your previous condition of servitude, you can lay at the door of (a.) the sit-down strikers, (b.) the weather man, or (c.) Madam Secretary Perkins...