Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half years as the New Deal's chief weapon against unemployment, the Works Progress Administration has been the delight of cartoonists and paragraphers. The ubiquitous WPA signs, signifying men & women at work building bridges, painting murals, reciting Bernard Shaw or planting oysters-all under the direction of Washington- seemed to the rugged individualists to be a vaguely comic extracurricular activity of the Federal Government...
...stated that contrary to the general impression, measures for obligatory education were being rushed when the war overtook them. In 1913 an act was passed which within eight years would have completely democratized education for the Russian people. Even before this, the local governments were making progress in education, he said...
...actual progress of yesterday's individual campaign of petitions, leaders of the vote reform group said that they had no available figures as to how many Seniors had signed up. From a not entirely reliable source, however, it was learned that 50 men of 1938 had affixed signatures to the petition being circulated in Adams House...
...mental health of teachers is below normal. The average teacher is a worrier. Two-fifths of them worry so much that it interferes with their sleep and efficiency. Chief of their worries: lack of money. A large proportion worry about the unsatisfactory progress of their pupils. Relatively few worry about marital affairs...
...World War he has lived quietly in Haslemere, making his own instruments just as the 16th and 17th-Century craftsmen made theirs, piecing together bits of historical information on how they should be played, playing the old music, teaching others how to play it. The idea of artistic progress rouses Dolmetsch's fiery disdain. Says he in his time-resisting French accent: "There has been no improvement in any art, at any time, anywhere! There have been little changes-like in fashions-but you usually find that where you've gained something you've at the same...