Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...useless in a country where the workers all work. But out there, as soon as they are left alone, they become slack." The bleak impersonality of some model houses depressed him: "Can this depersonalization, towards which everything in the U. S. S. R. seems to tend, be considered as progress? For my part, I cannot believe it." The nearly universal conformity of opinion depressed him more. "In the U. S. S. R. everybody knows beforehand, once and for all, that on any and every subject there can be only one opinion...
...Progress towards greater coordination now lies with the railroads who have set up an organization toward this end, but the rate of progress has lagged since the office of Federal Co-ordinator was allowed to lapse last June...
Clochemerle, a small French provincial town in the Beaujolais wine district, was governed in 1923 by a shrewdly ambitious mayor. Progress within reasonable limits, and to the greater glory of the administration, was his realistic policy. What Clochemerle needed, thought the mayor, was a public urinal. The thing was erected, and unveiled with fitting ceremony before the whole town. And then the trouble began...
Although this early victory gives promise of a bright season to come, it must be borne in mind that sports, like stock exchange graphs, have their up and downs. But if the crew continues to show the spirit that has marked its progress in the last twelve months, the prospects for the festivities at New London look exceptionally happy...
...current University bill be interesting not so much as a good program, for it is not, but as a case example in the progress of American movie subject matter. Along with a rather mediocre comedy, "We're On the Jury" (Victor Moore and Belen Broderick) and a first-rate "March of Time", there is "John Meado's Woman", with Edward Arnold and Francis Larrimore. It is this picture which is the case...