Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...endowment will be reserved for publication. Payments will be made in ten monthly installments of $350, a final payment being made upon the presentation of a completed manuscript giving the results of the research. The holder will be required to report periodically to the Committee concerning the progress of his research. Although registered in Harvard University as Research Fellow, he need not be in residence at the University...
...Progress in lighting was evident. Oldsmobile and Oakland had added the tilt-ray control, already used by Cadillac; and McFarlan showed the Ryan head lamp which gives an unusually diffused light, including a strong sidewise light which makes the spot light unnecessary...
...book, which preaches nationalism, democracy and communism, has been taken by the students as their 'bible." Inspired by it, they continue their fight for progress. As long as the progressive government, which is rising in southern China, holds the upper hand, the outlook for China's future is bright...
...been the object of the editors to use the possibilities in the way indicated and often the results have been gratifying. Without, however, a wide knowledge of the reactions of their public, the progress has been somewhat in the dark. It is the purpose of this editorial to invite comment from the readers of the BOOKSHELF. The editors will be grateful for the recommendations of particular books: but they desire suggestions which bear on the general plan of the undertaking. To the extent that responses do this, they will clarify what otherwise must remain very indefinite reasoning on the part...
Ancient, exotic Africa works changes on all the travelers except Mme. Momoro. She has been there before. Ogle feels himself shrinking into a bitter, puny ineffectual as he drives with her over multicolored mountains and desert in the wake of the barbarian Tinker, whose progress, strewn with coin and prodigious solecisms, looms more arid more like that of a conquering potentate, a latter-day Hamilcar, a boisterous Caesar of a new Rome. His is an army of dollars; his retinue at home is 6,000 slaves. He scoffs at the native backwardness, ladens his wife with curios, silks, jewelry brought...