Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the faculty of Harvard University, are among the 400 or more scientists throughout the country who have been working for the last year on a science them for the Chicago World's Fair. The Fair, which is to be held in 1933, will commemorate a century of progress since the year 1933 when Chicago became a city...
...Books," said Mr. Howe, "are measuring sticks of our progress, and will continue to exert an enormous influence in the shaping of American civilization. So it behooves every American to know what the nation itself is doing through books for that civilization...
Despite a fresh clown act in the never ending comic opera of Polish politics (see below) the Government took an important step last week toward Progress...
...hundred and nine miles and a mountain range with peaks 10,000 feet high separate the city of Santo Domingo from Santiago de los Caballeros. The road, fortunately for Courier Cabot, has been recently improved. Disregarding possible bandits, sharpshooters, expecting every instant to strike a battle in full progress, Courier Cabot dashed onward. Back in Santo Domingo white-haired nephritic President Horacio Vasquez prudently sent his wife to the American Legation, retired to the city's fortress, took command of the garrison...
...basis is allowing his irritation to transgress the saner view of the situation which he could well afford to take. Although no responsibility can be directly imputed to the American delegation, proceedings at the conference did at one time take a turn temporarily alarming to observers eagerly awaiting progress towards reduction of naval strength. It will be recalled that in the latter part of February France's prime-minister, Andre Tardieu, came forward with a demand for a total tonnage of seven hundred and twenty-five thousand tons for France by 1937. Such a program if consistently carried out would...