Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executive board, which quit the C. I. O. in November, 1938 on the eve of that organization's first constitutional convention, adopted a resolution declaring that peace between the Federation and the C. I. O. is a "primary need to the well-being and the progress of American workers...
...cultural conference ended on a note of far-reaching program-planning. In Guatemala City, Treasury representatives of the 21 Republics met to ponder financial ways & means. Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced conclusion of a reciprocal trade agreement with Venezuela (eleventh with a Latin-American nation, 22nd in all), "progress" on new agreements with Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins had his experts meet with Latin-American tourist-bureau chiefs to plot travel increases...
Expressing complete satisfaction with the number of undergraduates who have applied already this fall for study guidance (and subsequent tutoring in some cases under graduate school specialists), Stanley C. Salmen '36 said that he was pleased with the progress of the Supervision Bureau. Salmen is the Secretary of the seven-professor Committee on the Supervision of Students...
...Poland emerged from the World War a runied nation," Count Potocki said. Its problem was to change a battlefield into a well-run and firmly established country. Taking the problem of education as an example of Polish progress, the Polish Ambassador told how illiteracy had been reduced from 40% to 18%, with educational facilities provided for everyone of school...
Last Friday the Hygiene Building witnessed an influx of famous medical men meeting to discuss the Grant Study. This psychological, biological, and sociological survey has been in progress for over a year in an attempt to discover the motivating forces of a cross-section of normal college students. Although the Study has been pooh-poohed by students, questioned by some of the faculty, the verdict of the distinguished assembly gave professional blessing...