Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beyond this cooperation is a large area of international life where American interests are not represented at all: third, America's positive temperament will not long be satisfied with anything but complete and business like methods; and fourth, through such evolution America can best make her contribution to world progress...
...share of attention at 4.30 o'clock when Professor Conant speaks on "Recent Excavations and Research at the Monastery of Cluny" in the large lecture room of Fogg Museum. Finally, at 8 o'clock tonight, Professor Albert Brachet will discuss "La Situation Actuelle de l'Europe et le Progress Scientifique". This will take place in Phillips Brooks House...
Little noticed went other items in 1928's progress...
...Progress of the express business, from a competition between express companies to a railroad-controlled monopoly sanctioned by the Government, began during the War. For just as the railroads were administered by the Government, so the physical properties of the express companies were sold to the then newly-formed American Railway Express Co., which was managed by a Federal administrator. In September, 1920, Government administration ended, and American Railway Express continued as an operating company whose stock was jointly held by Adams Express and American Express. American Railway Express then arranged contracts with almost every U. S. railroad (notable exception...
...Hill, spoke to him about his forms, how they could help the school, how the college might be aided by them in its annual selection of potential freshmen. Dr. Lester and Headmaster Wendell benefited much from Dr. Wood's "cumulative forms" in devising the Hill method of recording progress and achievement...