Word: progressing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...from below. Large cut rocks were stacked at the foot of the slope, and then rolled up the incline one at a time. After a few trips, two of the men suggested that they race each other up. The plan was adopted, end soon a lively game was in progress. Before long the sport was developed so that many men could take part, and it became the most popular pastime in college. It was given the name of Rolo, and all maner of rules were devised. The Circle of the Elders discovered that Rolo had a beneficial effect...
...unfortunate development was noted. Little by little, the students were beginning to neglect their books and gather on the cliff-tops to watch the progress of the sport. In fact the playing of the game was left to a chosen few, while all the others gathered round to watch. Interest in the contests became intense; teams of Roloists were formed, and the students divided in heated rivalry. It is even recorded that Rolo experts from distant lands came to compete with the Incamen, and that the whole nation became fevered with enthusiasm for the game...
...Ames Competition is an inter-club competition for the second and third-year Law School Clubs. To win this annual contest is one of the highest honors atainable at the Law School, and the competition never fails to arouse much public interest in its progress. Members of the winning club who argued are each given a prize, and their names are placed on the panel on the north wall of the main reading room in Langdell Hall. This year there are two prizes, $200 going to the Kent Club as the winner, while a reward of $100 has been awarded...
Yesterday our excavators made rapid progress toward what appears to be the centre of the University. What promises to be the most interesting discovery to date was made in uncovering a small, well-preserved building on the edge of the area, which had the appearance of an office. Inside, stacked in huge piles along the walls and hanging from the ceiling were bunches of broad leaves of a tropical plant popularly known as elephant's ear. These leaves were tied together by the stems in uniform bunches. They had dried smoothly and lay close together like sheets of paper...
...come when one looks askance at the garish appeals to one's pocket-book, when reliable advertising has become a tremendous factor in a manufacturer's success. The reform is in its first stages, for there is much of the old time trickery still in evidence; but the progress that has been made, and will be made, proves the new meaning of the old adage "it pays to advertise" it does pay--both those who sell and those...