Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University of Massachusetts, I wish to commend you for your Aug. 31 article showing the outstanding achievements of President Mather in developing the university into a first-rate educational institution. It is unfortunate that Senator Powers and his colleagues have seen fit to place personal ambitions ahead of the progress of the university and the commonwealth...
This week, deeply gratified by the progress of his mission and refreshed by the interlude in Scotland, the President headed back to Washington, with only a scant week remaining before the arrival of Nikita Khrushchev...
...trip he made last week was the kind Duplessis took often, and carried off well, at once political fence mending and approving official inspection of Quebec's industrial progress, which he had earnestly nourished. Boarding a Dakota, he flew north over the bleak vastness of the northern Ungava district to Schefferville (pop. 1,630, an iron-mine company town). Relaxed and joking, the premier and friends toured the great, red-dust-laden, open-pit ore mine. During a break. Duplessis and a companion chatted in an office building. The premier was idly looking out a window when he wheeled...
...this week, under tough-talking, tough-acting Herb Mayes, 59, who took over as editor two weeks after he was fired from the same job in Hearst's Good Housekeeping, McCall's was again just one big happy family-particularly because on the basis of present progress. McCall's plans to up its guaranteed circulation to a record 5,500,000 next February...
...architect. After getting his degree in architecture from the University of Washington, he went East to New York, struggled through a long apprenticeship working as a draftsman, waited out the animosity of the war years, in 1945 landed a job with a firm in Detroit, where he stayed. Steady progress led to his first partnership, to his St. Louis airport building, with its lofty barrel vaults of shell concrete (TIME, April 16, 1956), and later, in 1954, to a near fatal case of ulcers...