Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years travelers who went to bed on trains either slept behind the green curtains of standard Pullman berths or paid a premium to use walled compartments, drawing rooms or bedrooms. Last year Pullman Co. built two experimental sleepers, named them Progress and Advance (renamed California and Bear Flag), loaned them to various railroads in the East and West for tryouts. Progress was a crack modern observation car; Advance a de luxe double-decker with nine rooms "down stairs" and seven on the upper level reached by individual stairs. This spring another experimental car, the Roomette, was submitted...
...thinks his program is fair, social, constructive, liberal. "If it is not, we are prepared to make it so." He wants capital and labor to recognize in advance that both employers and union leaders must "get off the back fence and act like men of intelligence before real progress can be made. ... Is Government then prepared to join with business and labor and say in all frankness, 'Well, we haven't cared much for one member of this group, but after all, we haven't made much headway by fighting. The situation is grave and we need...
...reaching Mexico City, where the sky is always blue and the air as sparkling as a pailletted gown, the Vagabond found little to deter his progress save a herd of lethargic cattle at every turn of the road, and, amidst every cluster of thatched huts, dozens of farrowing pigs that would scuttle under and around his car with uncivilized abandon...
...progress having been made as late as 6:30 o'clock a daring Horatio from the ranks of the Cambridge Gas Light Co. stepped into the breach and plunged into the already gas-filled man hole...
There has been a lot of comment about Widener Library this fall, some of it accurate and well-founded, some ill-advised. That there were some improvements which could be made, and that some improvements have been made, few will deny. For this progress, credit is due to Widener's receptive administration, which has done its best to meet reasonable demands. To the undergraduate, however, still remains the Library's greatest barrier--the lack of permission to use the stacks. To advocate that this permission be granted is not the purpose of this editorial; there are sound arguments against flooding...