Word: progress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense of humor gives us great joy. We make no attempt to urge her to "strive to keep up with others," for we know she is retarded in many ways. We compare her with no other normal child of her age; we are only delighted in self-progress and achievement...
...past few months there had been nothing particularly spectacular about the day-by-day progress of the ascent. But the cumulative effect was beginning to make a half-dollar look like a quarter, and a quarter like a jukebox slug. By June 15 the cost of living was 58.5% higher than in the period from 1935-39. (The post-World War I rise reached a peak of 105.2% above 1914 prices.) Clothing had risen 101.6%; food, 96.1%; house furnishings, 78%; fuel...
...make the Marshall plan for western Europe a working reality. But there were three snags dead ahead: French fear of a revived Germany, lack of capital for Ruhr reconstruction, the British Labor Government's insistence on nationalization, which the U.S. maintains should be deferred. Last week a little progress was reported in clearing these blocks...
...sincerity and his easy scorn of cant or ecclesiastical primness. Once, when a high-school audience began to settle back in boredom at being addressed by a pastor, he told them the story of the girl who called her boyfriend "Pilgrim" because every time he came over he made progress. The principal never asked him back, but the audience listened hard after that...
...Communist prospects at the next election? A. I'm a very careful prophet, but everyone else says we will make progress with the voters because of our good work in the past two years...