Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is something awe-inspiring about such efficiency. When the Freshman walks to morning classes even the mud on his shoes is a tribute to progress and seems only vaguely out of place in venerable Sever. Perhaps tomorrow morning will dawn on the completed Plan, with rhododendrons sprouting, the dadoes displaying a natural wood finish, and a piano recital in full swing. When this tomorrow arrives and the finished product, treated with muriatic acid and delicately dressed in English Ivy, appears before the undergraduate, he may find it palatable after...
Once again the firm hand of Labor has grasped at the working tranquility of Harvard University, when members of the Iron Workers Union now working at the Elevated Power Plant conducted a strike that threatened to cripple the work not only on the plant itself, but also the progress on Lowell and Dunster Houses...
...Across the canyon, backing the river up into a 25-mile-long lake, lay a $6,000,000 dam named for Citizen Coolidge. As President, he had inaugurated this great reclamation project. As a President's representative, he last week dedicated it to (among other things) Religion, Education, Progress, Better Homes, Larger Incomes...
...MacDonald announced that it had safely passed through what he called the "first stage," the stage in which "confidence" must be established among the delegations and was now entering the second stage "when on account of the established confidence we can discuss actual program." So well pleased with such progress was Mr. MacDonald that he cried: "If I talk with a feeling of buoyancy, I have very good reasons...
...Church of England: believes not differently from but more than his fellow members. He lives on Salisbury Plain, near Stonehenge, near Lady Mary Bailey, famed airwoman. Other books: Life and Matter, Raymond, or Life and Death, Ether and Reality, Evolution and Creation, Modern Scientific Ideas, Science and Human Progress, Why I Believe in Personal Immortality...