Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field of concentration is History and Literature, and in his Sophomore year he won the Barrett Wendell Prize, which goes to the Sophomore in that field who has made the most notable progress during the year. He is on the Editorial Board of the Advocate and is a member of the Student Union...
Blood hounds were brought from Meridian. Miss, and they immediately picked up the trail which led to the vestibule of the high school, from there to a Negro woman's house and finally to another Negro house where a crap game was in progress. The dogs made straight for a drunken Negro who was dozing in a corner...
...money was found on his person and a watch was left untouched in the overcoat. Several factors are left to work on, however. There were reports current at the time that a flight had been seen on the bridge shortly before the coat was discovered; investigation is still in progress to clear up this point...
When Van Wyck Brooks called the period of Hawthorne, Emerson and Bronson Alcott the flowering of New England, he did not use the phrase for its warm, poetic savor. Not only in Brooks's book but in lesser works like Odell Shepard's Pedlar's Progress: The Life of Branson Alcott, readers can catch whiffs of a morning freshness in the cultural air, when poets and novelists no less than practical citizens took on themselves lifetime projects, came back to work unshaken after personal tragedy or public disgrace...
...principally memorable for the light it throws on U. S. culture before and after the Civil War. Viewing Louisa Alcott as a writer of great native powers, and Little Women as a work of genuine social and literary influence, Miss Anthony with gentle strokes traces Louisa Alcott's progress from a high-spirited tomboy to a hardworking old maid. The impression of a frustrated and unhappy life is communicated almost in spite of her efforts. In Louisa's revolt against her father's unpracticality, she set herself to make money. She got her money and her popular...