Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Century of Progress. In New Britain, Conn., manufacturers Landers, Frary & Clark proudly reported the sale of an electric blanket to a Sioux Indian...
...tragic result of our Government's ineptitude and lack of policy in Asia has been to allow the Soviets and their allies to make rapid progress in liquidating their problems there and completing their expansion in the Orient so as to be free to turn all their effort to the subjugation of Europe...
...International. Actually, UNESCO's $100,000 was just a drop in the institute's bucket. Brazil would ante up $700,000 during the project's first year. Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and the Guianas, which border the Amazon basin, would kick in too. The "real progress," as Dr. Carneiro pointed out, was that the institute would be "the world's first truly international scientific undertaking...
...teammates could toss him and the ball over the scrimmage line for a first down, President Theodore Roosevelt stepped in to prohibit this maneuver as a menace to the young manhood of the nation. Since this palcolithic period of football, Coach Harlow has seen and brought about constant progress in the game. The forward pass without the added weight of a player was the greatest historical source of speed. Wit rather than weight has steadily become the emphasis. But since Harlow returned form the Navy to assume control over Harvard football fortunes a year and a half ago, he feels...
...idea how it will turn out. "The subject matter may be revealed in the middle of the work," he explains, "or I may not recognize it until a long time afterward." Instead of starting with something in nature, he begins by doodling. Each morning he lines his doodles-in-progress up against the walls of his studio. "They are my mirrors," he says. "They tell me what I am like at the moment...