Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stop my subscription. But fashions are part of history. And TIME reports history in the making, does it not ? During the last 20 years women's fashions have undone all the evil they did during 500 years. If men during the next 20 years make as much progress, men will have a reason for being proud of their sex. It is men nowadays who brush the dust off their shoes with their long pants. It is men who have to fasten innumerable buttons before their dress is complete. Fashions are no mean part of civilization. But report them...
...Majesty Alfonso XIII. English men do not require to be told this. They know it, for they know him. The King's ascendancy over his subjects, the mastery of his statesmanship, have been shown at every stage of his reign. They explain how the country is held together in progress and prosperity through a thousand political vicissitudes. Elaboration is needless here...
...difficulty of her position is that the buccaneer has scruples about innocent girls. But she overcomes these. Enchanted Isle. While a willowy debutante strives to elude an effete Italian Count, the robust forest ranger comes on from the West. He is a tenor; she a soprano. Passion's progress is recorded rather musically in "Close in Your Arms," "Voice of the High Sierras," "Enchanted Isle" and other duets. Ida Hoyt Chamberlain, concert singer, wrote it all-book, lyrics, music-and her friends produced it under an incognito of towering pretension, to wit, American Allied Arts...
Last year the Flying Club was very influential in helping to advance-knowledge of aeronautics among the students in the University, and it is expected that the progress in this direction will be given added impetus during the current year. A new plane has been purchased and six members have qualified as pilots. They are R. W. Ayer '28, W. N. Bump '28, M. N. Fairbanks '28, R. E. Gregg '28, F. P. Sproul '29, and Eric Wood...
...fall work. Experienced men are to go onto the river in shells next Monday. Men who have not rowed before are to practice one week on the working machines and then take seats in the Leviathan. How long a man remains in the barge depends upon his individual progress. Men showing special ability will be put into boats after two weeks. Rowing will cease on the river in six weeks...