Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cannot understand. To them our industrial life is the apotheosis of selfishness. They cannot realize that the rattle of the reaper, the buzz of the saw, the clang of the anvil, the roar of traffic are all part of a mighty symphony, not only of material but of spiritual progress. Out of them the nation is supporting its religious institutions, endowing its colleges, providing its charities, furnishing adornments of architecture, rearing its monuments, organizing its orchestras and encouraging its painting...
...American people see and understand. Imperturbed, they move majestically forward in the consciousness that they are making their contribution in common with our sister nations to the progress of humanity." Another Pittsburgher of the Cabinet,* Secretary of Labor James J. Davis, accompanied President Coolidge back to Washington...
...White House callers of the week include: contestants in the International Oratorical Contest and a delegation of railroad ticket agents, to be introduced; onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator Atlee Pomerene of Ohio to report the progress of himself and colleagues on the U. S. prosecution of oil litigation (see p. 11) and to ask for $100,000 to meet expenses; Roy T. Davis, U. S. Minister to Costa Rica, to pay respects...
Inquiries this fall into the progress of the scheme have revealed the fact that the original promoters had bought up considerable land--in Cambridge and nearby cities with a view to extensive real estate development work. The proposed private dormitory on DeWolfe Street flanking Westmorly Hall was part of this project. The land was purchased by what are commonly known as shoe string methods, however, and the mortgages which were taken out to finance the promoters scheme, have been fore closed. The property has now passed into other hands and the dormitory project has been definitely abandoned...
...name of Jacob Orgen to the scroll of those who have paid with their lives for attempting to advance their fellow man, who put their shoulder to the wheel of the wain of progress only to have the wain turn juggernaut. But in the Ghetto read the name as "Little Augie," a pioneer in a now overcrowded profession, who added finesse to the art of unmodified murder. He was the first to shudder at the crudeness of a Jimmie Valentine's jimmy and to shrug fastidious shoulders at the alien importations of Dr. Fu Manchu. One of the most minor...