Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...informal games were in progress as talent scouts began second guessing about the final stages of the Straus Trophy marathon...
...factors, chiefly the shortages of both funds and qualified personnel, must take a sizable share of the responsibility. But neither of these is an insurmountable obstacle--the financial problem must necessarily remain as a difficulty ever-present, and can hardly be offered as an impassable barrier against any future progress; the question of personnel deficiency is essentially a short run matter. Both of these should be causes of temporary reduction, not permanent de-emphasis of tutorial...
...this should be added the comment by George S. Forbes, Chairman of the Chemistry Department, who noted that "our course offerings are compact, and carefully integrated. Our teaching fellows and instructors follow the students' progress closely in the laboratories for the various courses... All department members advise their quotas of concentrators... We feel that our staff performs many of the functions of those officially designated as tutors...
Welcome Invasion. Some diehard conservatives look balefully on all this progress. Caught in a midtown traffic jam one day, Geologist Emmet Tatum, a Houston resident for 17 years, cried: "Progress, hell! I wish every one of the bustling so-and-so's would go back where they came from...
...their report. Molotov objected: "The Austrian deputies may not be prepared to report on such short notice." Whereupon Marshall snapped in his crispest military tone: "The American deputy will be ready." Half an hour later, the American deputy (General Mark Clark) was told at his hotel to make a progress report next day. Cried he, aghast: "We made a report on London. You mean progress here?" Then he stalked off to write a report...