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Word: progress (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Just think of what the history books would say about the kind of progress between the time when Horace Greeley said "Go west, young man," and when Mae West said "Come out and see me some time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 23, 1937 | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

Poor Boy's Progress. When President Roosevelt sent his nomination to the Senate, only he and Hugo Black knew what was in it and Senator Black's knowledge was hours old. The nomination fell as a bombshell to the press if not to the nominee, whose previous experience on the bench consisted of a year-and-a-half as a "boy judge" in Birmingham's police court. That was in 1910, three years after he had left poverty-bitten Clay County with $1.20 following the burning of the law office young Hugo had managed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Nominee No. 93 | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

Dentistry is a young profession, still suffering from growing pains, and your sympathetic attitude will do much to establish public confidence in its efforts to progress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Gas v. Guns | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...Elwyn Brooks ("Andy") White, not elderly (38), not eccentric, but melancholy and increasingly troubled about the world. It was his curtain speech in The New Yorker. He was going away on a year's leave-of-absence, maybe a dozen years, to give himself time to think about progress & politics, whether to get out of their jumpy wake or try to catch up with them. He will probably consult with his melancholy colleague, James Grover Thurber, who is now in Europe sending back an occasional piece to The New Yorker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Tilley's Farewell | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

...this good Montessori doctrine was roundly applauded. Danish Foreign Minister Dr. Peter Munch got up to add: "We must help by seeing that history books are purged of all biased records which inculcate national hatreds. Brazil, Argentina and Scandinavia have already made great progress." British Author Philip Noel Baker (The Private Manufacture of Armaments) spoke fervently for international government. An enthusiastic delegate offered a resolution to make the League of Nations an instrument of ''international political hygiene to prevent the growth of the diseases of Communism and Fascism." From Barcelona, where Dottoressa Montessori had been conducting a training...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Montessori in Copenhagen | 8/16/1937 | See Source »

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