Word: progress
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...high hurdles, 440-yard dash, 220-yard low hurdles, two mile run. 220-yard dash, and 880-yard run. The field events, the high jump, the shot put, the pole vault, the broad jump, and the hammer throw, will probably be run off while the track events are in progress...
Preparations for the Freshman Jubilee, which is to be held on June 2, are now making fast progress and a tentative schedule for the day's events has been given out The list of ushers for the dance has been announced as follows: Head Ushers--V. Chapin and R. G. Hooker, Jr.; Ushers--C. C. Buell, Q. S. Cabot, M. Duane, F. Fiske, C. H. Hawes, J. T. Lanman, J. Larocque, C. C. Lee, H. S. Morgan, B. DeL Nash, E. Perkins, H. L. Pratt, J. R. Reynolds, D. F. Thayer, J. G. Winchester...
...kind, are not very satisfying when hundreds of thousands are thrown out of work and millions are seriously inconvenienced. The public does know that the strike came without warning, that it does not call for any definite program, and that its success means the undoing of much of the progress that has been made in collective bargaining. Whatever the mystery of the strike may be, the public knows that it is not receiving fair treatment; and the outlaw strikers, standing against the tide of public sentiment, have lost more than half the battle...
...newspapers shall be restricted to two pages. At Nassau in the Bahamas, for many years a digest of the world news in two pages was the only form of newspaper issued; and this brief journal served with complete satisfaction to keep the populace informed as to the world's progress...
There is a wide-spread belief that wages should be fixed on a cost of living basis. This idea is pernicious and intolerable. It means putting progress in chains and liberty in fetters. It means fixing a standard of living and a standard of life and liberty which must remain fixed. America's workers cannot accept that proposition. They demand a progressively advancing standard of life. They have an abiding faith in a better future for all mankind. They discard and denounce a system of fixing wages on the sole basis of family budgets and bread bills. Workers are entitled...