Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about football. Jim [Harvard 1908] was telling me what a great football player he was. He thought he was better than Jim Thorpe in his younger days, and I told him he wasn't." Mr. Bergoff also said they had talked business-the breaking of strikes then in progress at six Remington Rand plants (TIME, June 22). It was in connection with that series of strikes that the NLRB, investigating charges that Remington Rand had coerced employes, fostered company unions and discriminatorily discharged 17 union leaders, had called Pearl Bergoff...
Viewed as the first step in this direction, the removal of the compulsory sports item to the books of the college can be hailed as the beginning of the march of progress, even though it opens a nasty hole in the A.A. figures and leaves the endowment fund itself as much of a vision as ever...
...There are intelligent and offensive methods of school visiting. If you go to school to check on your child's progress ... do not embarrass him by talking about him before others. . . . Going to school to criticize is fraught with danger. ... It should never be done on one's first visit. . . . No matter what our motives are for visiting the school, the canons of good taste should govern the call...
...banker politician, Grover Aloysius Whalen, supersalesman and onetime Police Commissioner, and R. H. Macy & Co.'s President Percy Selden Straus, came together to discuss Mr. McAneny's theory that New York could outdo Chicago with a World's Fair even bigger & better than the Century of Progress. After a summer of conversations, Mr. McAneny & friends invited 121 Manhattan bigwigs to a meeting at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, proposed to them a plan for a World's Fair company. From the enthusiasm of that occasion sprang the most grandiose of all Fair projects...
Leverett House recently inaugurated a deck tennis court on the flat roof of the Dining Room. Work on the project has been in progress for some time; with its completion last week, Leverett became the possessor of the only deck tennis court in the College...