Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raise basketball from a minor to a major sport, it is essential to make a decent showing this winter and to arouse the interest of both the college and the public. The former must cause the latter, and so much has Harvard basketball improved that if still continues to progress, there may come a day when another major sport will be added to the present list...
...nation can scize its opportunity to grasp the issues involved. Clarification of these issues has been overdue since the first whispers of the controversy burst into a roar heard far beyond the borders of Wisconsin. The core of the conflict is simple. The Regents must decide whether the undeniable progress made by the University under Frank's direction outweighs the President's alleged mismanagement of intra-University disputes...
...Sherlock Holmes, who had recourse to narcotics, Detective Nick Charles depends solely upon alcohol. In After the Thin Man, he sets a new record for deductive drinking. Fortified by a few nips aboard the train, he and his wife arrive in San Francisco to find a party already in progress at their house. After a few nips more, they go to a family dinner, where Nick drinks the other male guests into a stupor. When it turns out that the scapegrace husband of Mrs. Charles's pretty cousin (Elissa Landi) has mysteriously disappeared, Nick Charles finds...
...omnivorous reader with a sharp memory, Pundit Brisbane possessed a great stock of odds & ends of information, like the hodge-podge of an almanac, which was mightily impressive to his readers. He had a Wellsian feeling for science and material progress, often pondered on the vastness of the material universe, as contrasted with the minuteness of man. For a King Features symposium just before his death, Mr. Brisbane typically wrote: "The successful completion of the 200-inch telescopic reflector is the most important event of 1936. It will carry the sight and mind of science man at least one million...
...lascivious sonnes, masters of bad servants, and wives of ill husbands" whose doings fill the criminal records and who were occasionally punished by being nailed to the pillory by the ears. Spies moved freely among them, since Spain maintained a well-knit espionage apparatus to keep informed on the progress of the feeble British outposts...