Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Number three man John Palfrey had never touched a squash racquet before coming to college, and his progress has been astonishing. The hard-working lefthander may soon be as well known for his squash as his tennis. Bill Wood at number four has great potentialities. He has more natural sapped and power than anyone on the squad and is picking up the knack of controlling this power, Don Marvin, at number five, is a newcomer to the top group, but he has natural ability which should soon place him on a par with the best of the racquet wielders...
More than 500 applied in the two years the fellowships have been offered. Last year nine newspaper men studied at the university and this year twelve are studying. Represented this year are the United Press, the Associated Press, New York Herald Tribune, Petersburg (Va.) Progress-Index, Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, United States News, Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser, Baltimore Evening Sun, Bismarck (N. Dak.) Leader, and the Boston Herald, and the Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Miss.) ford, author; Walter Lippman...
...Senator Harry Styles Bridges† bounded like a bandersnatch. Object of bulgy, lusty Senator Bridges' travels and speeches was to plug himself for the G.O.P. Presidential nomination. He hammered indiscriminately at the whole New Deal, showed himself to many a far-western Republican. Observing Mr. Bridges' progress with pride & prejudice were his two wealthy young angels: Edmund Converse, 32, short, blond, dynamic, whose grandfather founded the Bankers Trust Co. of New York; and tall, deliberate Palmer Beaudette, 26, whose grandfather once made Model-T bodies for Ford...
...Finland! Arise to the courageous fight against the tyranny of your oppressors and hangmen! Arise, all citizens to whom the future of our country is dear! Let us throw down the black pack of reaction from the shoulders of our people! Let us clear the road for the progress, welfare and culture of the people, for the realization of the age-old national aspirations of our people. Let triumph the cause of the workers, peasants and working intelligentsia of Finland...
...defense of the schools. President Conant described to the educators the progress of Harvard's department of education, stating that the University has "set itself squarely against the traditional procedure of granting a professional degree in teaching on the basis of credits in courses...