Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week silent film ingenue. When 1929 took her savings she had earned $2,000 weekly in vaudeville. For Recovery she developed her illuminating fan dance. In 1933 and 1934 Businesswoman Beck grossed $6,000 a week (with outside engagements) at Chicago's Century of Progress. Thereafter it was all gravy: movies, contracts, $1,000-a-day appearances at Atlantic City's Steel Pier, $2,500-a-week unveilings at Manhattan's Paradise Restaurant...
...while we made so little progress that we were forced to open a small date bureau, never dreaming in the world that the idea would ever take hold, but about the second night we fixed up nearly half of the Business School with dates for their Columbus Day dance," she boasted. Miss Slote was very careful to affirm that the date bureau would be abandoned as soon as the 'Group' made some noticeable impression on Harvard boys, and that it was not an end in itself but merely the means...
Perhaps "Hollywood Cavalcade," as its title implies, is meant to tell the evolution of the movie industry from a puny stream to a raging torrent. But as the film works out, it tells of a rollicking freshet that grew into a sprawling, limpid river. To apostles of "progress" in the movie industry, this picture is indeed discouraging, for as it progresses from its first sequences of riotous cinematic primitivism it steadily loses audience interest...
Regular reading tests are given periodically to check on the progress of the class. The number of words read per minute is computed and graphed for each student as well as the daily average for the class. Selections of increasing difficulty of thought are offered the student to teach him to grasp the main idea and central thought of any passage...
From then on Keller's progress was all up the hill. Shortly after Chrysler left General Motors, "K. T." became executive vice-president of Chevrolet but when Chrysler hired him for Chrysler Corp.'s general manager in 1926 he was glad to chuck his job and go to work for the man he admired most in the motor business. And when Walter Chrysler stepped out of the presidency of his company four years ago he had only one candidate for the job: serious, barrel-chested Dodge President K. T. Keller. For Keller had shown more than production genius...