Word: progressively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shall respect all social laws and promulgate others that will promote social progress and bring the full benefits of civilization within the reach of every Spaniard. I intend to regain the prestige of Spain as a nation. I think that a military dictatorship will mean the co-operation of all sections of national life. We shall entrust efficient technical men with the administration, not politicians. My reorganization of the State will be based on a corporate system resembling Italy and Germany, preserving, however, traditional Spanish characteristics. My agreement with General Mola and the other leaders of the Revolution provided that...
...years Chicago's hollow-eyed lively Attorney Mary Belle Spencer has been a stock figure in that city's news. During the Hauptmann trial, she circularized the Hunterdon County, N. J. venire rolls with a long fantasy to prove the alien carpenter innocent. During the Century of Progress, she tried to have Fan Dancer Sally Rand jailed for indecency. Same year Attorney Spencer was herself haled into court to explain why she had never sent her two daughters to school. Daughters Victoria, now 14, and Mary Belle II, 16, their mother then explained, had been brought up without...
...surprise last week as the Twentieth Century Limited rushed by. Coupled on at the rear were two slate-gray, streamlined cars, one of them relatively normal in appearance, the other definitely strange, with little square windows on two levels like the gunports of a frigate. One car was named Progress, the other Advance...
Highly skilled craftsmen of the German Hygiene Museum in Dresden have constructed four transparent men, one of which was shown at Chicago's Century of Progress.- Desiring to sponsor the. first transparent woman, principally as an educational exhibit for the U. S. public and incidentally as an advertisement for his bandages, Mr. Camp, after being quoted a price reputed to be $20.000, told the Dresden artisans to go ahead. First, the skeleton of a young Dresden woman, killed in an accident, was treated with preservative, covered with paraffin. Brain, heart, stomach, lungs, thyroid, liver, spleen, pancreas, bladder and other...
...strength of his knowledge, partially on his craft. During the oral examinations he learned that the more delays he could introduce the fewer would be the questions. Consequently he stalled, hedged, purposely irritated the examiners to direct their questions to subjects on which he was well-informed. Thereafter his progress was rapid...