Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prime Minister went out of his way to add: "We were sincerely rejoiced that it was found possible to come to an agreement with the Italian Government as to the patrolling of the Mediterranean by French, Italian and British warships [TIME, Oct. 4]. If we could once make real progress in the settlement of the Spanish problem, the way would be open to those conversations which formed the subject of the recent correspondence between Signor Mussolini and myself...
...boycott Japan," U. S. radio listeners were told by former Chinese Ambassador to the U. S. Dr. Alfred Sao-Ke Sze, broadcasting from Shanghai, "you will find you have contributed to the greatest single step of progress in history...
From the earliest days, when Archbishop Laud threatened the very existence of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, there have been obstacles in the path of Harvard's progress. Whenever possible, the College has adapted itself to the changing conditions of national life and so guided its development that there have always been new fields ahead in which it might play the role, as Mr. Conant phrases it, of "innovator and pacemaker." But when the conditions have been such that they menaced Harvard's existence in any form, the College has not been too proud to fight...
...More than any one else I am in a position to appreciate the tragedy of Japan's aggression against China, for I know China was on the high road to great progress when hostilities broke out. My special part in building up of the nation was to assist my husband in creating a New Life movement and to help reorganize the air force...
...vital importance to the college. One has only to compare the position held by the college today with that of three years ago to realize the magnitude of the tasks he accomplished. Even undergraduates who murmured resentfully over his academic program have expressed appreciation of the college's progress under his administration. Williams has reason to be grateful to Tyler Dennett...