Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...books in this collection exemplify the work of many of the world's greatest printers, from the fifteenth century to the present time, and thus illustrate not only the progress of classical scholarship but also the history of the art of printing. The collection consists of editions, translations, revisions, and re-issues, together with a large number of writings on Persius, a Roman satirist born in 34 A. D., and third in order of the great Roman satirists. His work is chiefly devoted to the exposition of the doctrine propounded by the stories and developed according to their doctrine...
Remarkable progress has been made in the last few years in the construction of telescopes and especially in the construction of those instruments made for photographing celestial bodies. This progress seems all the more wonderful when one considers the very great problems to be solved. One of the most difficult of these problems is that of contending against the varying atmospheric conditions, but the modern instruments are so skillfully constructed that photographs of marvelous clearness have been obtained in spite of the varying density and light of the air strata...
Foreign investment is essential to the industrial progress of any new country. Owing to her troubled affairs, Spain, the mother country, could not give this support and the other countries stepped in, Germany, France, and Italy following the lead of England. Although with the greatest natural advantages, the United States has only an infinitesimal part in the total foreign holdings...
...greatest moral problem that the western world has to face at the present time is materialism and commercialism, and it is because of the over-valuation that men place on worldly goods that the progress of the world is so slow. The world of the Middle Ages was anything but ideal, being full of greed, cruelty, and lust, but the world of today is above all else, symbolical of materialism...
...addition he illustrated by slides the present condition of Panama and Colon, the tremendous progress which American methods of sanitation have made in these old cities and the great possibilities for development which the country contiguous to them affords. There lies in Panama a totally new field ready to be exploited for America by American enterprise...