Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same time, the Barrett Wendell Prize of selected books in History and Literature was given to Edonard Sandoz '39 of Cambridge, as the sopohmore who has made the most notable progress during the year...
...Harumph!" broke in Chief McDermott. "We have only been exploring the matter thus far. It is not quite correct to say that the negotiations are in progress...
...elaborate pictures like Maytime, Lost Horizon, A Star is Born have encouraged producers, never inclined to be pennywise, to spend stockholders' funds more freely than ever. Minor trends will be toward even more musicals, most of them frivolous rather than operatic; fewer child stars. Color will continue to progress slowly. In the next year, Hollywood will produce a total of 700 feature pictures...
...long as modern college methods call for strenuous emphasis upon examinations as a means of estimating the progress of undergraduates in their fields, the phrasing and selection of questions will stand out as one of the most essential administrative tasks. That Harvard's examiners have sometimes slipped up in manufacturing their working tools is not to be questioned. The ambiguity of the Money and Banking section of the Junior Economics paper of last year is only a case in point...
Married. Nikolai Sokoloff, 50, director of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Music Project, longtime (1918-33) conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra; and Mrs. Ruth Haller Ottaway, 50, chairman of the National Council of Women; in Manhattan...