Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...water propelled by a piece of camphor in its stern which gave off a thin film of camphor on the water. Periodically Dr. Langmuir appeared in the screen and said, "Now, if you will kindly look over my shoulder. . . ." Then followed a "closeup" of an experiment in progress. He pointed out that the talkie saved him the expense of carrying to Columbus and erecting elaborate apparatus; that after once filming an experiment a university could repeat it indefinitely for its students at nominal expense. He told also that talking movies have been made of Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Ernest Rutherford...
...Simmons, President of the New York Stock Exchange speaking before the members of the Chicago Stock Exchange at their annual dinner on Thursday attacked the Federal Reserve Board labeling its actions as an arbitrary curtailment of funds for stock market loans which would inevitably lead to a curtailment of progress and prosperity...
Professor Lyman, when interviewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter refused to make any definite statement as to the amount of money already raised, saying only, "We are making some progress. I am quite encouraged...
Other researches in progress deal with the problem of the safe landing of airplanes in thick weather an electric-wave technique which is new being used in an attack on the problem of cancer and the commercial application of electric oscillations as a means of standardizing the thickness of paper and rubber during their manufacture...
...available for use in the evening by men whose afternoons must otherwise be dedicated to laboratory work. The example of Dartmouth goes to show that evening laboratory study is entirely practical and not beyond the range of possibility. Where apparently no insurmountable difficulty stands in the path of progress, it seems but reasonable to expect that minor details can and should be arranged to provide for the interests of no small number of students. A move to bring longer laboratory hours to Harvard will but increase the value of the material additions being made for the study of science...