Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...date he has flown to France; Belgium; England; Mexico; Canada in the interests (his) of aviation progress and the interests (governmental) of international good will. In his own writings last week he pointed out the risks of flying over lonely Central American mountains. Remarked dissenters: "How much more lonely are the wastes of the Pacific; jungles below the Equator; tropic waterways of the East over which he must fly if his portfolio of Ambassador of Good Will is permanent." Grumblers wondered if interest accruing to the national welfare by his flights is worth the calamitous crash of principal which would...
...Miguel Primo de Rivera, his prototype in Spain, have now so claw-hooked their authority into the texture of law and politics that the only combative weapons left to their enemies are assassination and revolution. Both statesmen have successfully spurred their countrymen to strides and leaps in material progress. They are the fashion plates aped by all modern personal autocrats. Examples: President Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey; Dictator Marshal Josef Pilsudski of Poland; Dictator General Carlos Ibanez of Chile...
...Just as I was on the point of returning home I learned of your proposal to break off relations with Soviet Russia and demand the withdrawal of the Soviet consulates. This act, if carried out, will be suicidal, isolating China and retarding her progress...
Only the briefest reports from Massachusetts lookouts had told of the plane's earliest progress. The Dawn's regular radio set had evidently expired shortly after starting. The landing field at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, lay white with Christmas snow uncut by the Dawn's landing wheels...
...after all, who will blame the Student Vagabond? Who, indeed! Who is so hard hearted as not to shed a tear--even only figuratively speaking at the thought of the grievous impediment which the freezing slush of Massachusetts avenue would offer to progress of the wanderer's roller skates? Who would not weep to see him, lightly skimming along the boardwalks from Harvard to Sever, trip with dire results upon a protruding nail, half hidden by the snow? Who would not but why call up more misery? It is, indeed, lost too many tears should flow, least those...