Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first grade in Chicago's Fulton Elementary School, Frank Balek, now eleven, the son of a left-handed mother, puzzled his teachers because he could not learn to read or write. In the second grade he pushed his paper sideways, began to make some progress. By the third grade he had shoved the paper all the way around and was writing rapidly by his own method. Starting in the lower right-hand corner of his paper, his first line would go like this...
...substratosphere flying for T. W. A.'s President Jack Frye. At the same time Seattle's Boeing Aircraft Co. was building the great high-altitude Air Corps' B-17 bombers which last month jauntily flew 10,000 miles around South America. Dissatisfied with Douglas' progress and convinced by Tomlinson's tests that upper-air flight was feasible, T. W. A. became sold on Boeing's idea of a big passenger fuselage for the well-tested wings and tail of the Air Corps' B-17 bomber, ordered six. Its weight, too, would be just...
This exhibition, which has been organized by the American Russian Institute, comprises about one hundred photographs, maps, and drawings illustrating not only the development of recent architectures throughout the Soviet Union, but also the progress which has been made in the planning of cities...
...grandson, Bayard, and his playmate, a negro boy, gradually progress from childhood into manhood, always under her influence and as-similating her valiant spirit and indomitable will. Ringo, the negro, is recognized almost on a level with Bayard, and in many ways he appears to be his superior. It is he on whom Granny Sarforis leans for support in the crucial moments. He is always in her confidence in her plots, while Bayard seems to act on his orders without knowing...
...medical drawings, so much depends." Over 100 have graduated from this course since 1913, among them his daughter, Elizabeth Brödel, who draws for the Women's Clinic of New York Hospital. Few alumni lack work, for, as Max Brödel tells all his students: "Medical progress is swift and constant, and many a subject considered a closed chapter has been opened by some discovery, thus necessitating newly illustrated books...