Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...juices had no effect on hard-boiled eggs, "direct evidence," stated Dr. Blotner, "that large quantities of liquor taken over a long period of time destroy digestive enzymes and thus prevent the proper digestion and assimilation of food. Consequently a deficiency disease is produced." The disease: polyneuritis, which may progress so far that the drunkard continually walks as though stepping over obstacles, continuously talks of places and people he never...
...director, who got a divorce from Mack Truckman Alfred Joseph Brosseau in 1930 because he slapped her face when she refused him the key to their wine cellar. Small, grim, wiry Mrs. Brosseau said that whenever the U. S. had "paused on the long trail of progress," women had been "right there with their first-aid kits. The state at which we have arrived," she cried, "did not spring up in a night. It dates back to the Secret Order of the Illuminati, which was organized in 1776 by Adam Weishaupt of Bavaria, and which caused the fomenting of revolutions...
Three major difficulties stood in the way. First was that the Dallas Exposition comes right on top of two World's Fairs, Chicago's and San Diego's. Dallas stole their thunder. The Dallas Fair buildings are in a style reminiscent of the Century of Progress, but not quite so modernistic and spiced with a Mexican flavor. Indirect lighting on a grand scale is provided. The approach (admission 50?) is past a 300-ft. lagoon, flanked by a Transportation building (emphasis on oil as motive power) and a Hall of Electricity, to a great State of Texas...
...drive for him this year, could no longer stand the strain of seeing his car behind the leaders, jumped in to drive himself. He finished third. With less than 100 miles to go, Meyer had a five-lap lead. Adapting his pace to that of his nearest rivals, whose progress was signalled to him by his pit crew, Meyer held his speed till five miles from the end, then reduced it to 98 m.p.h. to save gas. With one pint of gas left in his tank, he finished one lap ahead of Ted Horn of Los Angeles...
Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr. '38, of Cambridge, won the Barrett Wendell Prize given annually to the Sophomore in the field of History and Literature who has made the most progress during the year...