Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another war service performed was that of making recordings for the Overseas Administration Civil Affairs Training School here. These recordings, made at various intervals of the student's training, were used as a check-up on his progress in the language he was learning. "By the end they got good enough to tell jokes," said Barclay, "but I never knew what they were talking about...
Said the prospectus: "It has been suggested that a mixture of many volatile temperaments would make the progress of such a venture anything but serene. If certain rules of the road are accepted, however, clashes of opinion can be channeled into the magazine, where they would be most rewardingly constructive. If democratic procedures work for 130,000,000 variously opinionated souls, they ought to work...
Through these ten years the little magazine transition, published in Paris by Eugene Jolas, printed the "Work in Progress" (later published as Finnegans Wake) of that great master James Joyce. With Joyce's gigantic experiment in evidence, transition's purpose "to revolutionize language" seemed a possible one; dadaists and automatic writers took renewed courage; and young poets dipped more consciously into the unconscious, in which Uncle Alfred swam like a kidney...
Scar-faced Giichi Matsuda, known to his fellow gangsters as "The Intellectual" because he was a high-school graduate, was fascinated by the newfangled ideas of democracy and progress. Last December, when he became boss of the 2,000 open-air shopkeepers (tekiyas) in the Matsuzakaya street gang, he tried to put the ideas into practice. Last week they proved his downfall...
...Senate and House conferees were said to have made some progress...