Word: progress
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recent "Blithe Spirit." His portrayal of the King is fascinating. Alternating between rugged defense of His Divine Right and a genuine desire to westernize his backward land, the monarch enters a conflict of wits with the schoolmarm who cannot countenance some of the bizarre practices that are placed beyond "progress...
...Progress Exaggerated...
...wish to call to your attention a number of inaccuracies in your story "Progress Report" [TIME, June...
...many great achievements in the field of tuberculosis since the time of Koch. Thus, the therapeutic possibilities of sulfones and streptomycin, as well as the studies of immunization with BCG, are discussed in the very same issue of your magazine; you could also have mentioned, among other lines of progress, the improvement of X-ray methods of diagnosis, the campaign for the detection of early cases, the growth of sanatoria, the different procedures of collapse therapy...
...about 1914, when Rouault was an out-at-elbows modernist and Vollard was an up-&-coming dealer, one of the few who bought modern paintings. He gave Rouault a studio in his own house and advanced him 50,000 francs (then $10,000)-thereby obtaining all his work in progress and a lien on future paintings...