Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America to give full credit to that wonderful runner, A. F. Newton of South Africa. Better late than never. Newton was born within a mile or two of Bedford, England, famous because it was whilst in jail in that town that John Bunyan wrote his Pilgrim's Progress. New to a left England when a youth of 15 to study and take up farming in Rhodesia, South Africa, and as stated never took up running seriously until near 40 years old, yet at 44 and 45 he had smashed to smithereens all former world's records whether amateur...
Cloud-rider. At Mt. Wasserkupper in the Rhon Mountains, where international glider contests were in progress last week, an approaching thunderstorm sent pilots and spectators scurrying for cover. One pilot, however, Robert Kronfeld of Austria, deliberately took off with his new glider Wien, largest ever built. He knew that the heavy clouds indicated strong upcurrents. He "hooked on" beneath a cloud, soared ahead of the storm's center, landed at Hof, 94 mi. distant, bettering his old world's record by two miles...
Editor Ray Long published in Cosmopolitan the letters of Miss Edith Benham, social secretary to President Woodrow Wilson and his second wife, written to her fiance Rear Admiral James M. Helm. Social Secretary Benham reported almost daily to her Admiral the progress of the Paris Peace Conference as she observed it from the Wilson's Paris headquarters, the ornate Bischoffsheim house at 11 Place des Etats Unis...
...Richards: "I have long wanted to be the head of a school where boys more and more are really vitally interested in education . . . where in every case the Master in a given subject can honestly say that everything within human reason has been done to aid and promote the progress of a boy; where classrooms may be free from the formal ranks of desks fastened to the floor and made more appealing with chairs and tables; where the bright as well as the slower student can advance without the hindrance of a lock-step regimentation. . . . You may call...
...sake of Progress, for the safety of his progressive régime Dictator Kemal was forced to put such arrant, desperate reactionaries to the sword. In one respect his own capital, progressive Angora, is retrograde. It no longer produces peerless Angora cats. But of all coats the Angora has still the longest, silkiest haired...