Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ride all night in a day coach for lack of other accommodations, to watch the gradual gray of dawn creep on while miserable coat-wraped figures stir uneasily in their seats or mumble drousily, and finally to be set out into the smoky chillness of South Station, is almost enough to banish all thoughts of further vagabonding for as much as a week at least. And, if the truth must out, little would have been seen of the Student Vagabond--who feels at the moment like the proverbial hedgehog when he sees his shadow on February 22--if it were...
...Powers recommended to the Government of China that if and when it shall come into existence it should draw up a civil and commercial code and modernize the Chinese judicial procedure. The Powers intimated that if and when this shall be accomplished they would consider gradual abandonment of extraterritoriality...
...reporter, F. W. Moore '93, graduate treasurer of the H. A. A., expressed his personal opinion that the agreement should be changed. "A start of even a week earlier would infinitely benefit the players," he remarked. "The longer, period would enable the coaches to make the training process more gradual and less arduous. Under the present arrangement, with a scant ten days before the opening game, intensive training is entered into at once, and is carried on at an exhausting pace throughout the season. An earlier training date would obviate the need for hurry, render the training less intensive...
...vocational activity in the light of his own tastes and abilities, and thereby, guided by advice of men in the field which he prefers, make a wiser choice of a life-work than he might otherwise do. This establishment in the college curricula of vocational work must be very gradual, but the plan was proposed to the representatives of the colleges at the meeting of sub-committees representing the Club and the colleges will meet next month to consider the practical means of carrying out the plan. It is hoped that some definite results may be accomplished...
...said to be 'style". Movie palaces of lavishness not excelled in any period of history are a classic example of this tendency. The continued popularity of night clubs, revues in the grand manner, automobiles in garish colors, all bespeak a desire for the rich and gaudy rather than a gradual return to a stately simplicity, while the actions of American tourists in Europe have been such as to show them far ahead of the Europeans as exhibitionists American prosperity made this country go off at a tangent, but once there, everybody rather enjoyed it and is still enjoying...