Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busily buying up East Side property as far west of U.N. as Grand Central, getting ready to refurbish the whole area. When he sells or develops his neighboring blocks, he expects to make his usual 400% profit. Said he with happy anticipation: "That's how we make progress in this wonderful capitalistic country...
...Judas Sheep. There had been little enough progress in the area where U.N. would build: between 42nd and 48th Streets, from First Avenue to the river (see map). In the old slaughterhouse area livestock is still floated in by barge from New Jersey, is still led to the killing sheds by a cynical Judas sheep. On a vacant lot near the Consolidated laundry, Italian workmen still bowl through the intricacies of bocce every day the weather permits. Sidewalks are littered with old refuse, crumbling walls chalked with ancient obscenities...
Reports from the outlying precincts indicate that Bradley Tech, with supposedly the best basketball team in the college's history, will provide the stiffest opposition for the Crimson. Western Reserve hasn't fared too well, and little is known about Indiana Central's progress. Westminster made a disastrous visit to Madison Square Garden a week ago, when C.C.N.Y. gave the Pittsburghers a thirty-point thrashing; but in years past the Smoky City delegation has produced a traditionally strong quintet...
...early in the formative stages of the game--merely on the strength of such allegations--would be almost to admit to Professor Elliott's charge of naivete. Months ago the charge of "walking out" on the U.N. was levelled at Russia. Had the Soviet left U.N. then, no progress in international cooperation could have been expected. It would be ironie if the American delegation to the I.U.S. should take the same foolish stop...
...showed up short of wind, but still long-winded. The late Theodore Dreiser's last novel, The Bulwark, had the weight, but not the distinction, of a Percheron. Upton Sinclair's A World to Win did no more than mark another 600-odd pages in the improbable progress of Hero Lanny Budd. William Saroyan's The Adventures of Wesley Jackson presented a moist and flaccid soul behind a bold front. Pearl Buck's Pavilion of Women was not of great price...