Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refused to play in tournaments or have his picture taken as a public figure. John Montague promptly became major news. Last September, Westbrook Pegler devoted a column to him. Last January, when a freelance photographer finally got two snapshots of Montague, TIME published them with an account of his progress (TIME...
...meet last week, the air one day was heavy with a threat of squally weather. Lightning glimmered occasionally in the distance, and mountainous dark storm-clouds or "thunderheads," with flat bottoms and bulging, shifting domes were moving in on Harris Hill. On the hilltop, where the meet was in progress, Soaring Pilot Richard Chichester du Pont appraised the grim thunderheads with eager eyes, then took off in his big, sleek sailplane after an automobile tow. Up, up, up he circled on rising air currents, while hundreds of faces turned up at him from the ground. Pilots of motored planes swing...
...persuaded the Church to split Canon 41 for the first time, by permitting pastors to remarry a) the innocent party in a divorce for adultery, b) those who had secured annulments for any of nine premarital impediments. * At the 1934 convention the commission made no further requests but reported "progress." Since then it has been meeting regularly in Member Glenn's offices to prepare a thoroughgoing recommendation to lay before the convention which will be held in Cincinnati in October. When the commission released its report last week, it gave many a right-thinking Episcopalian a ruder jolt than...
...great Republic of the North," cried Dr. Saavedra Lamas, "is a magnificent spectacle of human progress, continues to be in the contemporary world a creation that has never been surpassed in its political genius!" Monroe held, among other things, that a "republic is and always will be the invariable form of all governments in America," postulated the Argentine Foreign Minister. "Five countries of America, including our own. are about to elect new governments.*... It is NOT true that our Constitutions must be changed to adapt them to certain idealisms! . . . Monroe set up a retaining dam against any tendency ... to disturb...
...reform, declares Socialist Blum, need not wait for social revolution, can be won "simply through progress in ideas about morality." Veering even more sharply from orthodox Marxist sex doctrine is his belief that, since the "upper and middle classes" control public opinion and show the highest sex illiteracy, education must begin at the top. And of this group, since its men are already groping along the right track, "it is upon girls . . . that I rely for carrying out the reform which I suggest...