Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...legislative reform which seems plausible consists in the establishment of a committee whose sole duty would be the drafting of bills in such form that time may not be lost on the floor of the House in quibbling over details of phraseology and legality. Coordination of effort and legislative progress would be the result of these changes...
...make impssible the advocacy of radical reform. The true function of government is to guarantee to its citizens the free exercise of these rights rather thatn to limit or deny them. The whole historyof repression shows us that all repressive measures have been inseparable from tyranny and that true progress has been away from such legislation...
...substantial government, the governor possesses to a marked degree a sincere devotion to the cause of the American people. In no one section of the country are all his energies centered nor in any one class of people are all his interests placed, but he is concerned with the progress of the whole country and the welfare of all classes of people. Gifted with experience and ability as an executive, endowed with personal charm and eloquence, Governor Lowden may confidently await the Republican Convention with the calm assurance that his past accomplishments will bring their reward...
...covering a period of several hundred years. the books offer as well a summary of the history of printing. Almost every printer of note tried his hand in putting out an edition of Horace, who was a very popular author during the whole Middle Ages, and thus the whole progress of printing can be followed in these editions...
...editors in preferring to think that the Magazine did not start the Endowment Fund, we may be frankly grateful to the youngest of our publications for its success in spurring on its older neighbors. If, now the rivalry is removed, the surviving publications can remember that the need for progress and improvement still persists, if the best of the Magazine's contributors can be persuaded to turn their work into tamer but no less hopeful pages, if the Advocate and Lampoon can learn from the virtues as well as the errors of their short-lived competitor, surely its death will...