Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Progress of the experimental group was compared with the records made by a control group of 16 Freshmen, with admission records similar to those of the control group. The control group was given no special training. Comparison of Midyear with November grades showed that while ten students in the experimental group had better records, only five of the "control" group had made improvement...
This first solid German blow to the Royal Navy came on the heels of a communique issued last week to assure the British public that something was being done, some progress made, against the U-boats. "His Majesty's destroyers, patrol vessels and aircraft have been carrying out constant patrols over wide areas in search of enemy U-boats. Many attacks have been made and a number of U-boats have been destroyed. Survivors have been rescued and captured when possible...
Prevention, not cure, is still the watchword of most cancer researchers. No cure has been found, but practically all types of cancer, if detected in time, can be checked. Proud of its prevention progress was the Third International Cancer Congress, which met last week in Atlantic City, discussed a number of remarkable suggestions for nipping young cancer growths...
...brilliance of war pictures in the new Illustrated. Its 32 pages show British anti-aircraft guns and planes waiting for German raiders, Britons scurrying into air-raid shelters, their children evacuating London while German armies overrun Poland. Most of Sir John Hammerton's scenes of actual war in progress came to him from the enemy's Ministry for Propaganda, by way of the neutral Netherlands and Scandinavia. He had no immediate plans for sending his own cameramen to the front...
Selected for the coming year are: Stephen E. Fitzgerald, 30, of the Haltimore Evening Sun; Carroll Kilpatrick, 25, of the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser; Hodding Carter, 32, of The Delta Democrat Times, Greenville, Miss.; Edward A. Wyatt 4th, 29, of the Progress-index, Petersburg, Va.; Weldon B. James, 26, foreign correspondent of the United Press; William B. Diekinson, Jr., 30, Northwest news manager of the United Press, Minneapolis, Minn.; Volta W. Torrey, 34, news review editor of the Associated Press, New York City; William P. Vogel, Jr., 28, city hall reporter of The New York Herald Tribune; Oscar J. Buttodahl...