Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...change from possible omnipotence on the part of certain magnates to pressure from political parties and trade unions is not progress...
...their school authorities, spent largely on lunches, carfare, cigarets, clothing. Less than a fourth of the applications could be filled. For youth not in school, NYA's 48 state administrators had concocted an assortment of work relief projects, so designed as not to crowd the adult Works Progress Administration. Maximum monthly wage...
...progress must not be considered as in any way representing a solution of youth's problems. . . . NYA is simply helping a comparative few of the most worthy and needy young people...
...Winter, St. Louis exodontist (specialist in tooth pulling), observed that only a hundred years ago all U. S. dentists were "drawn from the ranks of the artisans, goldsmiths, blacksmiths and barbers." Since then dentists have improved in knowledge, skill and culture. Yet so halting has been their social progress that an official A. D. A. committee last week was obliged to report: ''Public esteem for the profession of dentistry is not as high as that of other professions...
...progress last week on Lake Michigan was the 29th running of the longest fresh-water yacht race in the world, the Chicago Yacht Club's famed Mackinac Race from Chicago up Lake Michigan, through hazardous Mackinac Straits to Mackinac Island. Sailing the 331-mile course and due to finish this week was the largest (42) fleet of yachts ever to participate. On hand to greet the winner were Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone, Myrna Loy, Jean Harlow and Harry M. Daugherty...