Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, at the Berlin Automobile Show, for the second time in a year Adolf Hitler posed alongside a gleaming sample of his $396 Strength Through Joy flivver. Well did he know, but nothing did he say about the wretchedly slow progress in production of the Volkswagen, which was conceived more than five years ago but will not be on the market until...
...influence the private lives of Catholic U. S. citizens as to marriage, morals, women's dress, co-education (he was against it), sex education, birth control. On the U. S. as a whole his efforts cannot be said to have had marked effect, unless they retarded inevitable progress toward more latitude in all these directions. One success was in furthering a self-imposed censorship of cinema (see p. 67). Catholic lobbies maintained in Washington to exert pressure on national legislation have had as their recent targets Child Labor legislation (against it), Federal control of education (against it), the embargo...
Liberal lawyers hold that the law flourishes by truing up ever more wisely with new and unblinkable social conditions. Liberal artists conceive the tradition of the fine arts as involving a like growth and adaptation. Occasionally, in each field, progress in interpretation is marked by a commentary so learned as to become a classic. Published last week was a serious book which may well become a sort of Blackstone on Coke to future art students. The subject: The Art of Cezanne* The commentators: Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia. Dr. Albert Coombs (''Argyrol") Barnes of Merion...
Going on with the history of wrestling, Pat observed that in the 19th century the sport made great progress. "The eastern states in this country took up the Roman style, while the far west, because of its contact with the Orient, adopted the Japanese technique. The Oklahoma wrestlers tried to combine the two, and that is one reason why they put out the finest grapplers in the game...
Five members of the Harvard Observatory staff will be among the ten scientists speaking in a symposium on "Progress in Astrophysics" in Philadelphia Friday under the auspices of the American Philosophical Society and the Franklin Institute...