Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TiME-readers but TIME was, to some degree, gullibility-guilty. Amazing progress_ continues to be made in blood transfusions; for example, young children have had new blood entirely substituted for their...
...Southerners work too little and brag too much. . . . We have become intoxicated with our own prosperity and progress. . . . The South is not yet an educationally advanced section of the U. S. ... In public libraries we are at the bottom of the list. The average per capita expenditure for public library service for the country is 33?. In the Southern States it ranges downward from 18? in Florida ... to 2? in Mississippi...
...addition of old-style Turkish flourishes. Many a young Turk, once he has mastered the new letters at a Government school, goes home to his village and soon develops a "dialect alphabet" which only his closest intimates can read. How to wipe out this maddening balk of progress? Obviously, with typewriters...
...punch was provided by the offer of a $5,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of persons bombing or damaging property of any printing concern that belonged to the Association and $1,000 reward for conviction of persons assaulting workers of print shops where strikes are in progress. The sales curve that the advertising is designed to revise downward is the yearly chart of Chicago bombings which have risen to 67 this year, compared to 46 in the corresponding 1928 period...
...Miss Brazil" would be crowned "Miss Universe" at Galveston, Tex. He remembered how the whole Rio and San Paulo press printed "sure thing" predictions, relying on despatches from leading U. S. news services. Rio got the impression that Manhattan males were well nigh frenzied over "Miss Brazil," that her progress through the U. S. was like the triumph of a Roman Emperor. Even Rio's carefully edited Cerreio de Manha complacently compared the goodwill voyages of "Miss Brazil" and Herbert Hoover...