Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...project of the Senior Committee severs the Gordian knot of hoary inefficiency and greases the wheels of progress. Seniors who have had previous experience in Album management will be able to accomplish their task with less trouble and nervous palpitations. The student Council deserves credit for its timely action...
...attracting a representative Freshman class of mature men President Conant's scholarship plans demonstrate their value. With their extension, Harvard can continue to progress towards its goal--a student body responsive to the advantages of a truly national university...
...draft of information about leprosy which his U. S. sponsors may cash at the bank of U. S. chanty to get funds for an increased attack on this ancient disease. "Tuberculosis is more infectious than leprosy," declared Dr. Muir. But leprosy is more amenable to treatment. Drugs arrest the progress of leprosy, but they do not cure. They are simply "useful adjuncts" to good food and plenty of vitamins. Just as useful as chaulmoogra oil, upon which hopes have risen high, is "any kind of counterirritant. Acids painted on the leper's body sometimes cause the cells to react...
...founder of Reading, Pa.'s Berkshire Knitting Mills, world's largest hosiery manufacturers; of heart disease; in Reading. In 1931 he set up a $1,000,000 Oberlaender Trust to promote German-American good-will by sending U. S. scholars to Germany and Austria. In progress at Berkshire Mills since Oct. 1 has been a strike against "sweatshop" conditions (TIME, Dec. 7). By last week's end 135 picketers, lying flat in slush and snow outside the plant, had been arrested for "blocking the sidewalk...
...forget the early "flickers" of the past and the enormous improvement that years of effort have wrought in the development of the motion picture. Such old favorites as "Wash Day Troubles" and "The Fugitive" are not only highly amusing to see today after several decades of progress, but are interesting in themselves for their amateurish depiction of people at the time that they were made...