Word: progressiveness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Century of Progress. In Los Angeles, Arthur Moon was arrested for drunkenness on his 100th birthday...
...Western envoys had held six conferences with Vyacheslav Molotov. No progress had been made toward lifting the Berlin blockade or toward a four-power conference. This week the representatives of the U.S., Britain and France were finally admitted to a second audience with Stalin. When they emerged, at 1:40 a.m., U.S. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith told newsmen that he expected more talks to be held. Said Smith: "We're always optimistic. We expect the best and prepare for the worst." Stalin gave his guests "tea and cakes," Smith reported...
...conference room at the Hotel du Tabac, old Gaillard completed his progress around the green table. Pointing at the treasure he had collected from the ashtrays, he shrugged. "It makes cigarettes," he said matter-of-factly. "Mind you, as cigarettes go, these leave a lot to be desired. But then, any cigarette is preferable to a bunch of megots [butts...
...Moscow, the army newspaper Red Star stated that a survival of religious faith in Russia was "hampering the triumphal progress toward Communism," and declared that this must be stamped out by "systematic, scientific, anti-religious propaganda...
...strapping, 6 ft. 4 white hero, brought up by Indians, whose progress toward the niceties of civilization is not enough to keep him from salting away the hand of an enemy as a trophy...