Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late Saturday afternoon a Yale admissions officer took a five minute respite from the arduous task of selecting freshmen who couldn't go to Harvard and turned his mind to the athletic progress of this year's freshmen. He was astounded...
...company of four muscular Quakers, he was taken for a brisk walk during which he was encouraged to admire the beauties of nature and enjoy the song of the lark.... He was not allowed any literature that might be considered inflammatory, he was given the Bible, Pilgrim's Progress and Uncle Tom's Cabin.... He was allowed no tobacco, no alcohol, and no red pepper. Cocoa he might have at any hour of the day or night, since the most eminent of his guardians were purveyors of that innocent beverage...
...Geneva's Palais des Nations, the site of many grand scenes and grander disappointments, the U.S., Britain and the Common Market Six have been bickering for nine months over an ambitious plan to lower world tariffs. Bogged down in technicalities, fragmented by chauvinism, they have made little progress. Last week the U.S. took a long step toward resolving the debate, hoping thereby to clear the way at last for the "Kennedy Round" of tariff talks that is scheduled to begin...
Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry and chairman of the special committee, said last night that the committee's progress over the past two months has been "better than expected...
...vivid recollection of my first year's apprenticeship is a phase from a lecture on waste disposal? The teacher of this training course was a lively master plumber, whose name, unfortunately, has long since left me. For this particular lecture he had written a short whimsical account of the progress of waste from Claverly Hall down to the Charles River. At one point he described the meeting of this waste with run-off from the bakery rooms of the University kitchens and said it would be impossible for the two to be confluent. When asked why, he replied, "Because yeast...