Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Army extremists, nor the British, who are playing for time, wanted to break off the Tokyo conversations. Finally Sir Robert and Foreign Minister Arita agreed to a vague compromise formula: "His Majesty's Government . . . recognize the actual situation in China, where hostilities on a large scale are in progress. . . . The Japanese forces in China have special requirements for the purpose of safeguarding their own security and maintaining public order. . . . His Majesty's Government have no intention of countenancing any acts or measures prejudicial to the attainment of the above-mentioned onjects...
...distorted by civilization; that when the secret of the child's soul is discovered the world's problems will be solved and we will have a race of self-confident, unrepressed men. Says she: "In the mind of the child we may perhaps find the key to progress, and, who knows, the beginning of a new civilization...
Margaret Storm Jameson's Yorkshire novels are as tough and interrelated as the roots of a bush. Latest offshoot, The Captain's Wife, is not part of her big novel-in-progress, The Mirror in Darkness, but it shares some of the same characters. And they, like all the berries on Storm Jameson's bush, are as bittersweet as ever...
Delegates at Philadelphia were pleased to hear their officers report progress for 1938, better prospects still for 1939. Last year's clearings for the twelve Negro banks were above $50,000,000-more than the 25 handled in 1926 and some 6% more than for 1937. Member banks, generally working in modest two-and three-window banking rooms, averaged...
Plump Adah Isaacs Menken, whose strip-tease opera, Mazeppa, had the town on its ear, wrote daring poems in the tradition of her good friend Walt Whitman. Henry George, tiny, tenacious, hopeful ex-sailor-prospector-typesetter and future author of Progress and Poverty, wrote on spiritualism and phrenology as well as political economy. Yellow Bird (John Rollin Ridge), half-Cherokee son of a Georgia plantation owner, contributed the West's most famous folk tale in The Life & Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit. Most talented woman writer was tall, dark-eyed Ina Donna Coolbrith, sweetheart...