Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elsewhere in Spain last week fortune favored the Leftists. In the south, Leftists got under way an offensive which made progress toward cutting Rightist lines of communication between Seville-Cordoba and the north. In the north another Leftist offensive thrust forward to cut a rail line connecting Rightist Spain with the French border, the Saragossa-Huesca railway. Meanwhile Leftists sent a heavy barrage of over 1,000 shells into Toledo, completely wrecking a big Rightist munitions plant...
...parents, the conferees believed, is too busy or too puzzled to give adequate answers to its children's sex questions. U. S. high schools, the Commission on Human Relations later found, which receive Youth at the age when the sex problem is most insistent, have made slight progress in the past 17 years toward providing this information. In a survey by the U. S. Public Health Service and American Social Hygiene Association in 1920, only 8% of the nation's high schools reported they gave coordinated sex instruction; eight years later only 10% did so. The commission...
Recommendation in this week's report to the A. B. A.: "That attendance in the court room during the progress of a criminal trial be limited to the seating capacity of the room...
Recommendation: "That broadcasting of arguments, giving out of argumentative press bulletins, and every other form of argument or discussion addressed to the public by lawyers in the case during the progress of the litigation be definitely forbidden...
Since 1924, when Samuel Eliot Morison '08, professor of History, was appointed Tercentenary Historian, Harvard had been making preparations for its celebration, and undergraduates and others were from time to time fanned with news of the progress. Now the Tercentenary Days are a year old. The Class of 1941 is the first which was not at Cambridge then; it is the first absolutely foreign to it. It is the first of many Classes which will gain most from reading Mr. Greene's book...