Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...made a fortune managing the professional career of Footballer Harold ("Red") Grange and sponsoring the first U. S. professional tennis tours. He lost it in 1929 in his second transcontinental "bunion derby" (marathon), tried to recoup with his "Believe It or Not" concession at Chicago's Century of Progress Fair...
...unfortunate colleagues. During the next three years, say these physicians, no more than 2,500 European physicians will come to settle in the U. S. and the U. S. is certainly large enough to absorb them. Many of these men are outstanding scientists, and will contribute greatly to the progress of American medicine...
...mind of little Pablo appears in a revealing flash in a story of his being given a pair of roller skates: instead of skating on them he took them apart and, with huge amusement, attached each pair of wheels to the flippers of an enormous tortoise, whose slow progress around the patio had annoyed...
...party in Paris on his 57th birthday, James Joyce announced the completion of the book that for 16 years has been known to the literary world as Work in Progress. Its title: Finnegan's Wake...
Reports that the Dartmouth Winter Carnival, now in progress at Hanover, N. H., will be a dry affair this year were confirmed last night when it was learned that the Dartmouth Outing Club which runs the annual affair had lost its permit to serve liquor...