Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With these late developments, police became more enthusiastic about the case's progress than they formerly had been. State Detective Daniel I. Murphy declared yesterday that three arrests will be made "in the near future," thanks to several new but as yet unannounced clues which have been discovered...
Princeton Professor Donald A. Stauffer, after taking a deep dive, comes panting to the surface with a handful of old clamshells-e.g., "A work of art may have extremely small beginnings"; "the progress of an artist in creation is always toward . . . greater significance," etc. Poet Karl (An Essay on Rime) Shapiro finds that "tigers have a dual significance" for Stephen Spender, that "poetry is but one form of expression of mystic or demonic vision...
...stave off slow strangulation, "the best in the business" began cutting itself into wax last year. Lately, however, their vanguard in the commercial recording field. The Ivy League Band Album, has begun to lose ground. Dartmouth, with recording plans of its own in progress, has cut the Crimson transcriptions from its campus, and, Princeton, for no apparent reason, seems to be following suit...
...morality is hit hard in this work about a utopian isle that tries to become anglicized. The king sends his daughters to be schooled in England, and they return paragons of virtue, "Extremely modest (so we're told), Demurely coy--divinely cold." They bring with them six "flowers of progress," Englishmen representing their country's rise to perfection, and including a company promoter and a county council member. The plot is simpler than that of any other Savoy opera, and since the attacked hypocrisy is still present, the work is a lot timelier than the others...
Daily "comment sheets" by the editors note the progress of eager candidates. "Conant," runs one of these memorializing the efforts of a now famous College president, "escapes only because he didn't have the chance to blunder...