Progress in carrying out Portillo's reform agenda during his first year in office was slow.

In the 1930s, the Federal Writers ' Project — part of the Works Progress Administration ( WPA )— sent out interviewers to collect accounts from various groups, including surviving witnesses of the Civil War, slavery, and other major historical events.

The third edition came out in 1861, with a number of sentences rewritten or added and an introductory appendix, An Historical Sketch of the Recent Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species, while the fourth in 1866 had further revisions.

In fact, Thurston resolved so many outstanding problems in foliation theory in such a short period of time that, according to Thurston, it led to a kind of exodus from the field, where advisors counselled students against going into foliation theory because Thurston was " cleaning out the subject " ( see " On Proof and Progress in Mathematics ", especially section 6 ).

* Nelson Algren's 1935 novel Somebody in Boots features the Chicago World's Fair of 1933 – 34, with the Century of Progress being described as " the brief city sprung out of the prairie and falling again into dust.

Perhaps the largest contribution to the public works system in the U. S. came out of President Franklin D. Roosevelt ’ s New Deal initiatives particularly the creation of the Works Progress Administration ( WPA ) in 1935.

The Works Progress Administration ( renamed during 1939 as the Works Project Administration ; WPA ) was the largest and most ambitious New Deal agency, employing millions of unskilled workers to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

Progress towards them depends on how systems carry out four vital functions: provision of health care services, resource generation, financing, and stewardship.

Another historic edifice is Brule Field, a natural amphitheater built out of native stone by the Great Depression-era Works Progress Administration.

Progress has been made in creating artificial pyroelectric materials, usually in the form of a thin film, out of gallium nitride ( GaN ), caesium nitrate ( CsNO < sub > 3 </ sub >), polyvinyl fluorides, derivatives of phenylpyrazine, and cobalt phthalocyanine.

Scholars have pointed out that Bunyan may have been influenced in the creation of places in The Pilgrim's Progress by his own surrounding environment.

Martha Scott received a career boost right out of college when she appeared with the Globe Theatre Troupe in a series of Shakespeare productions at the Century of Progress world's fair in Chicago in 1934.

It grew out of the Francophone part of the unitary Party for Freedom and Progress ( PVV-PLP ) in 1971 and merged into the Reformist Movement ( RM ) in 2002.

The cast had been locked out of the Maxine Elliott Theatre by the Works Progress Administration, the government agency which had originally funded the production, so the cast and musicians walked with the audience to the nearby Venice.

This was a test of the future air replenishment techniques to be carried out with Progress transports in subsequent space stations.

Erik Smith, president of the Media Fund, would later issue a statement pointing out that the FEC settlement did not find his group in violation of the law. The FEC had already fined a number of the other major 527s for illegal spending during the 2004 elections, including the Democratic-leaning groups MoveOn. org and the George Soros-backed America Coming Together, as well as the Republican-supporting groups Progress for America Voter Fund and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

The overriding theme of the six-hour long ceremony was ' Unity towards Progress ' and was brought out in a spectacular fashion through a mosaic of dance, music and intricate human graphics.

: EXAMPLE: Hegel gives as a symbol of the Infinite Progress the straight line which stretches out to infinity in both directions.

After three years of renovations carried out by the Works Progress Administration, the Atwater Kent Museum was formally dedicated on April 19, 1941.

Lyakhov and Ryumin continued their station activities, including experiments intended to be carried out with the visiting crew ( which had been delivered aboard the Progress 5 flight ), such as one called Pirin which investigated the formation of metal whiskers on zinc crystals, and another which made multi-spectral measurements of the daylight atmosphere.

Several manoeuvres were carried out by 2 April using the Progress to adjust the station's orbit.

On December 8 Progress 11 carried out an orbit correction for the complex.

Ongoing logistical support for the ISS would have to be carried out by Soyuz and Progress flights until the Space Shuttle returned to flight.

Musically, the album continued to branch out beyond Progress into new musical territory, including experimentation with unconventional time signatures.

The Airbus A400M is powered by four Europrop TP400 engines, which are the third most powerful turboprop engines ever produced, after the Kuznetsov NK-12 and Progress D-27.

Condorcet's Sketch for a Historical Picture of the Progress of the Human Spirit ( 1795 ) was perhaps the most influential formulation of the idea of progress ever written.

Progress on roads, rail lines, railheads and spurs in the Second Army zone was continuous and by mid-1917 gave the area the most efficient supply system of the British Expeditionary Force in France.

Progress in developing a reliable pen was slow until the mid-19th century, because of an imperfect understanding of the role that air pressure plays in the operation of pens and because most inks were highly corrosive and full of sedimentary inclusions.

The most notable rediscovered panorama in the United States was the Great Moving Panorama of Pilgrim's Progress, which was found in storage at the York Institute now the Saco Museum in Saco, Maine, by its former curator Tom Hardiman.

His most famous work, Progress and Poverty ( 1879 ), is a treatise on inequality, the cyclic nature of industrial economies, and the use of the land value tax as a remedy.

The Progress Medal instituted in 1935, is SMPTE's oldest and most prestigious medal, and awarded annually for technical contributions to the progress of engineering phases of the motion picture and / or television industries.

Some of the most prominent include the DVMP shipping company, the Dalmoreprodukt seafood concern, Progress Arsenyev Aircraft Works, and Vostok Mining.

The two parts of The Pilgrim's Progress in reality constitute a whole, and the whole is, without doubt, the most influential religious book ever written in the English language.

Charlotte Brontë refers to Pilgrim's Progress in most of her novels, including Jane Eyre, Shirley, and Villette.

Departments like the Civil Works Administration, Public Works Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps and most prominently the Works Progress Administration created thousands of jobs for the unemployed.

Progress in compiler technology explains much of this, although the rapid, and perhaps unexpected, continued improvement in microprocessor design rendered custom vector designs slower in most workloads.

It was followed by the Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration ( FAP / WPA ) in 1935, which funded some of the most well-known American artists.

Progress has been made in protecting many colonies where most species are most vulnerable.

Boston College athletes are among the most academically successful in the nation, according to the NCAA's Academic Progress Rate ( APR ).

Salyut 6 with Progress spacecraft | Progress ( P ) and Soyuz spacecraft | Soyuz ( F ) spacecraft The most important feature on Salyut 6, however, was the addition of a second docking port on the aft end of the station, which allowed two spacecraft to be docked at once.

Along with the Bible and John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the Calendar was famously in the top three works most likely to be found in the average home.

Politically, he warned the Progress Party particularly against " giving in " regarding the immigration policy, which he said was one of the most important issues for the party, and that the party in such a scenario would fall rapidly in polls, and lose credibility.

According to the survey, the Socialist Left and the Liberal Party were the two most feminist, while The Progress Party was the least feminist party in parliament.

Time magazine named Romm one of its " Heroes of the Environment ( 2009 )", calling him " The Web's most influential climate-change blogger " and, in 2010, it included Climate Progress in a list of the 25 " Best Blogs of 2010 " Romm's 2010 book, Straight Up is a compilation of some of his best blog entries from Climate Progress, with introductions and analysis by Romm.