Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Green was also jubilant at the progress made with labor's policy of the five-day, 40-hour week. Said he: "A total of 165,029 members of organized labor have won this new advance...
...Allenby, Her Grace the Duchess of Argyle, the Earl and Countess of Athlone,* Right Honorable Cabinet Ministers, and their excellencies, the ambassadors and ministers accredited to the Court St. James's. Never did Fate mock at a more distinguished company in their impotency to stay with sympathy the progress of disease...
More formal concerts have a role that no person shall enter the concert hall during the progress of a given piece of music. The fact that the time and place are such as to cast a general flavor of informality over the organ recitals in Appleton Chapel is no excuse for yesterday's catch-as-catch-can type of entry. There is always at least one usher at these musicals for the purpose of dispensing programs. His duties might well be extended to include the detaining of late comers without the door until the number being played at the time...
...problem of married professors and tutors is going to be a big one. I suppose it would be possible to appoint only bachelors as "Fellows". That problem will have to be settled before much progress can be made...
...established in the mind of the general reader as a purgatory of child marriages, a hell of sadistic animal torture. Mrs. Beck touches lightly upon these abuses, announces firmly that India has made the greatest spiritual contribution of all time. While the West has been making rapid jerks of progress-materialistic, intellectual, scientific-the East has long since attained a spiritual consummation which -the West cannot forever ignore. Western science has recently discovered evolution in the development of a man's body-Eastern philosophy has always been concerned with evolution of the soul to higher and higher spirituality. Western...