Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meantime in Topeka, Alf Landon had been up at 5 a. m. Not stopping to shave, he put on a white linen suit with unaccustomed vest, swallowed his breakfast, hurried downtown to meet his agricultural experts. First hitch in his plan for an unobtrusive progress to Des Moines was the presence of four carloads of newshawks and photographers set to trail him. Three times along the 270-mile way the procession stopped at filling stations. At small Leon, Iowa, Governor Landon spied a barbershop in a hotel basement, hopped out for a shave. Afterwards he shook hands with most...
...gain is only seeming. Slowly social forces resume their course. Reaction gains power. Reason steps in. Emotions rest. . . . Within a decade or a generation, social progress is about to where it would have been under normal process of growth...
...Progress and Advance are what U. S. railroads are now going in for heavily to resell the public train travel. The Century's two new cars marked Pullman Co.'s boldest innovation in design since the Pintsch gas era. An articulated unit made of alloy steel and aluminum, Advance & Progress together weigh no more than one standard Pullman...
...Progress is mostly a modern observation lounge, has one compartment, three double rooms, all on one level. Advance, however, is a "duplex" car with two levels. It has 16 rooms, nine on the floor level, seven more reached individually by three steps from the corridor at the side. Each has a transverse sofa which converts into a bed. Six of the downstairs rooms have partitions which slide back, converting them into three double rooms. With airconditioning, indirect lighting, individual toilets, folding armrests, folding tables, the new cars are the most comfortable Pullman has yet produced...
...bulletin board the progress and the errors of the five contestants were scored up by officials. The pace was terrific. In a few minutes they began to sweat like wrestlers. They were typing from the Alchemy of Time, a treatise on the early history of Minnesota...