Word: progressive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delmar Leighton appealed strongly for progress toward tutorial for non-Honors students, in his final report as Dean of Harvard College, released yesterday...
Reviewing the College's achievements in 1958, Jordan claimed that Radcliffe has made "steady and substantial progress" toward some of its main goals. He cited the opening of Comstock Hall as a step forward in student housing, noting that 91 per cent of the enrollment is presently housed on campus, as contrasted with 60 per cent as recently...
British tommies scoured the mountains for EOKA terrorists, but last week, Britain's Cyprus Governor Sir Hugh Foot, grateful for the absence of incidents, declared in a broadcast: "In the past 21 days we have made good progress." If violence were abandoned "for good," promised Foot, Archbishop Makarios, exiled leader of the Greek Cypriots, could return to the island, and "we could finish with the emergency altogether." As a further gesture. Foot ordered 35 EOKA suspects released from detention camps "following a review of their cases...
Tiny Ted Atkinson was 20 years old and making little progress as a $35-a-week shipping clerk in a Brooklyn chemical plant when a truck driver friend suggested that his build (5 ft. 2 in., 100 Ibs.) was ideal for a jockey. Ted got a job with the Whitneys' Greentree Stable as a stableboy, watered horses and broke yearlings while he learned about racing. On May 18, 1938, at Beulah Park in Ohio, he rode his first winner, Musical Jack. Said Ted afterward: "Musical Jack did all his own winning. I was just along for the ride...
...Federal Trade Commission last week issued a progress report on its all-out attack on phony price cutting. In the three months since FTC started the campaign with a warning to merchants to stop marking up goods in order to make fake price cuts seem to be bargains, 60 companies have learned their lesson the hard way. Box score: 33 complaints, 21 orders to cease and desist, and six consent agreements. Most of the actions (32) were against furriers, long among the most obvious of the price packers, but the campaign also extended to sellers of sewing machines, perfumes, women...