Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conservation, unfortunately, is more a religion than a science in the minds of some of its fanatics. They write only of disasters, ignore the progress...
...Council members will check with the full Council or its president, William D. Weeks '49, before interviewing vice-President Reynolds or his assistants, and the Council will "attempt to keep the Dean's Office as well informed as possible on the progress of Council work...
...ball on the basic plays that Valpey found time to install this season. When the sophomores who got their first bitter lessons at Ithaca and Princeton have been around for another couple of seasons, then Art Valpey may be able to say more each week than "We're making progress; we're still on fundamentals." That might be the reason that seven (7) scouts from Cornell spent last Saturday in the Stadium thinking about next October...
...some ways, we are worse off than we were a century ago, said Dr. Abel Wolman, professor of sanitary engineering at Johns Hopkins, and our boasted progress in health is not as great as many like to think. There is hardly a stream in the U.S. that is not more polluted than it was 100 years ago, and, said Dr. Wolman, "there is hardly a city in Massachusetts or one in the rest of the U.S. in which the conditions of housing are not essentially worse than those, at which the Shattuck report * directed severe criticism." In Washington...
Last week the school board's Committee on Hand Washing and Drying Facilities, formed to look into such matters, made a triumphant report of progress: the city had set aside $100,000 to provide soap and paper towels for 143,000 kindergarten and first-grade pupils. Could the 740,000 other unwashed New York City youngsters, from second grade to senior high, look to a cleaner, brighter future too? Said the committee's secretary guardedly: "We have hopes...