Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Walter White and Lena Home could mark a note of progress in race relations last week. Harvard University's football team started a Negro tackle, quiet, 6 ft. 4 in. Chester Pierce, in its game with the University of Virginia at Charlottesville. It was one of the very few times a Negro had played against a Southern university on a field south of the Mason-Dixon line. Many in the crowd of 24,000 Southerners waved flags of the Confederacy; many of them also applauded Harvard's Pierce for the hard game he played while his team took...
Discussing the individual sections of the law, Pressman particularly condemned its restriction of union elections and negotiations until the union in question has been cleared by a certificate from the National Labor Relations Board. As a result of this provision, he said, two or three "stool pigeons" can delay progress of union activities indefinitely by swearing that they have been intimidated into joining the union...
Last Fall's ostentatious Constitutional Revision only culminated evolution in progress since the first Council of 1908. Two basic obstacles had long blocked a quick maturity: unrepresentative political composition of the Council and the time-honored concept of the level on which propriety permitted a collegiate aristocracy to function...
This week, like a general in mid-campaign, Dr. Hawley paused to review his progress. Said he, to a gathering of physicians in Indianapolis: "The first question to be answered was: Where is the best medicine in the country practiced? The answer was very simple-in teaching hospitals. If, then, we were to give the veteran the best... we had first to make as many of our hospitals as possible teaching hospitals...
...Bomb Progress. If they are not yet as far advanced as they might wish in the manufacture of A-bombs, the Russians are well ahead in the field of V-bombs. They have concentrated particularly on very long-range attack by such self-propelled, pilotless aerial weapons, and it is reported that particularly satisfactory results have been obtained at an experimental station in Siberia near the Kamchatka peninsula. Over distances of 900 and 1,300 miles, they can now concentrate their aim within three to six miles of the target...