Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been his wont, Secretary Mellon, reporting to Congress on Federal finances for another fiscal year (1928, ended June 30), reviewed the progress of private business and finance in the U. S. during the same period...
...Boys." Repeatedly last week George V asked about the progress of the two sons who were dashing Londonward. Edward of Wales reached London Tuesday night, after having made the 6,450 miles from the African jungles in nine days, twelve hours. Soon after his eldest son reached his bedside, the King was reported in a bulletin as "slightly better." For the final stretch of rails, from Brindisi, Italy, to Boulogne, France, the Italian Government supplied a special train and officials cooperated to the end that it should cross Europe at an average speed of 35 miles an hour. Though impressive...
...holidays. This step is both wise and timely. It recognizes and removes the stigma of illegality from what has been a common practice among men who did not attain official Dean's List ranking at the January or June times of demarcation, but raised the record of their scholastic progress to the required level at November...
...slow progressive shift of the axis about which the earth rotates over a period of months and years has been known for a long time, explained Professor Stetson, but that there should exist such a diurnal effect depending upon the altitude of the moon in the sky was not known until the results of the present investigation were found. From the results of other investigations in progress at the Astronomical Laboratory last year, Professor Stetson is led to believe that the moon might cause a deviation in the direction of gravity as it passed over the meridian of the observer...
thousand miles to accomplish their pur-j pose. And we? We progress not a single inch in anything...