Word: progressing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...commendation are C. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Camel's Back", Alice Duer Miller's "Slow Poison", L. H. Robbins "Professor Todd's used Car", and "Alma Mater" by O. F. Lewis. The last, as might be supposed from the title, is a college story, a narrative abreast of the progress in American university matters...
American merchants and bankers have been making surprising progress in the expansion of their activities in Colombia. Before the war we were supplying 27 per cent of the total imports of that country, and but little effective headway was being made toward improvement, primarily because of the entire absence of American branch banks and of thoroughly American mercantile agencies. Today our commercial interests in Colombia are being aggressively developed through fifteen branch banks, an American Chamber of Commerce, and at least twenty large and well planned distributing organizations. This explains in large measure the growth in our share of Colombia...
...Guild have succeeded in arousing a powerful craft spirit of pride in speed and finish of workmanship, and have assured themselves a guaranteed weekly wage, regardless of weather conditions, for under the rules laid down by the initiators of the scheme every worker is to assist the progress of the job in hand at all times, regardless of weather conditions, which often make outdoor construction - impossible. The system has worked very well in the communities in which it has been tried. In fact on every occasion that the Guild has offered bids in competition with Union contractors, the latter have...
That the Workshop should prove it is not entirely in the hands of experimenters in the vague, esoteric realms of ultramodernism, is nothing to be deplored. Far too often, organizations of this type progress beyond their public's ability to follow; and by so doing, lose the power to accomplish anything for the advancement of the stage. The Workshop, by putting on a play of everyday life, has done much to win the confidence of the every-day follower of the drama...
...beginners. The last two pamphlets may be obtained free from Mr. Dewey on request, but the Handbook will be given free only to members of the Simplified Spelling League. Others may obtain paper-bound copies for fifty cents and board-bound at $1.00 All interested in furthering the progress of the movement should communicate with Mr. Dewey at Emerson 4. The fee for becoming a member of the League...