Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sincerely interested in furthering the progress of College theater," said W. Todd Parsons '48, president of the Hasty Pudding Club Theatricals, "and are more than pleased to offer our facilities to HDC." The agreement was hailed by the Dramatic Club, which has often been sorely handicapped by lack of adequate production space...
...started on Saturday afternoon, when Vag was walking past Adams House, rejoicing at the belated arrival of spring weather. From a C-entry room the radio blared forth the progress of the Boston city series, and a horn-rimmed passer-by, recently emerged from the Grolier Book Shop, remarked in disgust, "don't tell me that nonsense is starting again!" Vag smiled contentedly, reflecting for perhaps the thousandth time that Cambridge was one of the few places in America where such sentiments were commonplace...
...Little Progress. Last week the Ministers managed to agree that central administrative agencies should be established in Germany, and, three months later, a German Advisory Council which the U.S. hopes will take over as a provisional government. But disagreement remained on everything else, including the composition of the council. The Russians wanted it to include the Organization of Free German Women, the Farmers' Aid Society, and the Culture Bund-all Communist fronts. Replied Ernie Bevin: "We should consult well-known groups, rather than these others. As a very old propagandist of the Socialist Party, I know a lot about...
...block west of Ebbets Field, at the Left Field Bar & Grill, a grim conversation was in progress. One voice said: "Dixie Walker ain't hittin', huh?" A dime bounced on the bar and a voice replied: "He'll hit ... but whaddya get from Durocher? He ain't lookin' over the rookies. Who's gonna be on first? Third base's wide open. Only three positions sewed down. The jerk! Gimme a libation, Eddie...
Starting in 1893, the young groundskeeper watched from the sidelines as Harvard's progress in the pole vault began paralleling its academic growth--the latter under Eliot, Lowell, and finally Conant, who hadn't yet seen the light of day when Mike was babying his first track here out on Jarvis Field...