Word: progressives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handled weekly magazines, called the switch "miraculous." Said TIME'S traffic manager, W. A. Evans: "We've had a lot of practice and it would have looked pretty bad if we had muffed it." TIME'S President Roy Larsen said: "This move should make possible further progress in the area of efficient distribution and merchandising of our magazines." At S -M's annual convention in Portsmouth, N.H., I was pleased to hear the reports of real progress which were already coming...
...member of the original Faculty sub-committee which prepared the draft of that proposal, I naturally hoped that the Army would adopt it in toto. For the reasons which I have discussed above, however, I am extremely pleased with the substantial progress which we have made. . . . T. N. Dupuy, Colonel Artillery
...earnestness were enough-which it is not-Nasser and Egypt would be making fast progress toward that goal. The Premier himself lives with remarkable austerity in a five-room, sand-colored house inside the army compound in Cairo's Abbasiya military district. He allows himself almost none of the personal privileges now within his means. "I did not go there before," he once explained to an associate who wondered why the Premier refused to go inside the fashionable Semiramis Hotel. In the first days of power he liked to wear a military bush tunic, open at the neck, with...
...Progress Report. This week Connecticut had a mine of information on the gifted child that should prove useful to it and other states facing the same problem: a progress report by an eight-state-Committee on the Gifted and Bright that has been sent to 350 prominent educators in the Northeast, will be published in December as a booklet. Some of its points: ¶Contrary to common opinion, superior and talented children are more stable emotionally than the average child, and more mature physically. ¶Such children should be given a minimum of practice in the fundamental skills (e.g., arithmetic...
HOGARTH'S PROGRESS (319 pp.]-Pefer Quennell-Viking...