Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three graduate students and two experienced teachers, had come to Charleston as a result of cooperation between local community leaders and the Southern Teaching Program. We tried to use a combination of small classes and daily individual conferences in every subject to keep close watch on the progress of each student...
Harvard's sophomores continued to show progress in the weight and shot put. Ron Wilson won the weight with a 63-6 heave as Harvard swept the first three places. Carter Lord won the shot at 49-6 1/4 over Brown's Bruce Ross and teammate Tom Choquette...
...even this last barrier is now being experimentally, and rather furtively, lowered. Last month Dr. Albert van den Heuvel of the World Council of Churches' Youth Department told a Chicago audience that priests and ministers impatient at the slow pace of organized ecumenical progress are celebrating the Eucharist together and giving each other Communion. As many as 6,000 dedicated Catholic and Protestant laymen reportedly belong to ecumenical study groups in The Netherlands that periodically celebrate interfaith Communions; either a minister or a priest will preside, and the consecrated elements are given to all members present. And though probably...
...that standard, he is still young. "Thanks to belatedly picking up the piano," he says, "I have become more and more conscientious. I have an enormous margin of unfinished business." He adds with a twinkle: "That's why I can still make at my age a great deal of progress." And there he goes, bright as a trill, hat cocked over an eye, Brahms and Mozart and Chopin singing in his head?off to play another concert...
...Sloan who first sensed that Americans wanted something more than mere wheels and a combustion engine. "Mr. Ford," he later recalled, "failed to realize that it was necessary for new cars to do more than meet the need for basic transportation. Middle-income buyers created the demand for progress in new cars, for comfort, convenience, power and style. This was the actual trend of American life, and those who adapted to it prospered...