Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think that aviation has a great future," he continued. "Through airplanes, the world is going to advance even more than it has with the invention of the steam engine and electricity. The airplane will make everything move faster, and consequently faster progress. I believe that in a very few years airplane trips to Europe from America will not be considered unusual affairs. They will be made by business men and vacationers, and will be thought of as perfectly natural means of journeying. No doubt, within a few years, trips like I am now making will be common. People will...
...evident that the world political situation is not yet ripe. . . . We must prepare public opinion not to expect wonders at once. . . . Discussion has shown that an agreement cannot be reached until public opinion in many lands has drawn nearer to a common focus, permitting governments to modify their positions. . . ." Progress. Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, recipient of the first Wilson "Peace Prize"* (TIME, Dec. 15, 1924) and British delegate on the Preparatory Commission, described the Commission's "progress" last week in optimistic terms. Said he: "The Commission has carried out its assignment. ... It has drawn up a scheme [the "Draft...
Motion pictures portraying the progress of aeronautics, and showing various air events of the past year will be shown in the living room of the Union tonight at 7:30 o'clock. The films will be explained by Captain H. N. Heinsen, commanding officer of the Boston Airport. The showing is open to members of the Flying Club and the Union...
Members of the University are being given one more opportunity to signify their desire for a dining hall. Neither the Union club-tables arrangement nor the proposal that groups definitely express their inclination for a Commons has met with success, and consequently there has been no progress. Now, however, a petition, fully sanctioned and authorized by President Lowell, will be circulated in an attempt to secure signatures of five hundred men who will pledge themselves to eat in such an establishment for one half year. If this number of men signs the University promises a hall to be opened next...
...League of Nations. After comparing the individual as related to the nation, to the nation as related to the world, President Hibben remarked that "upon a superficial observation of our natural resources, of our commanding financial superiority as the creditor nation of the world, and our industrial progress unequalled in history, it seems to be a reasonable judgement that our nation so highly favored is self-contained and self-sufficient. A more profound observation of ourselves and of the world problems which confronts us leads us to the conclusion that as in the case of the individual, so also...