Word: progression
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifteen brass bands preceded Sir William down the Strand. Between the bands lurched and rumbled dozens of gorgeous, ingenious, expensive floats. One series showed the progress of printing from the Gutenberg Bible to the daily tabloid, with Father Time seen at last frantically pecking the keys of a linotype machine...
...When we have industrialized the Soviet Union and set the mujiks [peasants] to driving tractors, let the honorable capitalists with their 'civilization' try to outstrip us. Then we shall see which country can be called backward and which the vanguard of human progress...
Yale has a wonderful pair of ends in Barres and Hickok, one of the best tandems that Charley Comerford has produced. The line from tackle to tackle has made steady progress under Adam Walsh, the former Notre Dame center and captain. Marvin Stevens undoubtedly is a better head coach than he was last year, but he has been sorely beset by the developments which have made Albie Booth such an all-important factor in making the Elis' movements towards opponents' goal lines...
...President was visited by a number of Senators (who) presented to him the grave situation that has arisen by delays in tariff legislation. . . . Some of the Senators considered progress hopeless as it appeared to them that the coalition intended to delay or defeat legislation. . . . "The President said . . . that campaign promises should be carried out . . . that he could not believe and therefore would not admit that the U. S. Senate was unable to legislate...
...mechanistic] theory is . . . bankrupt. It has, in fact, ceased to interest physiologists in recent times. . . . One often meets the statement . . . that scientific physiology is progressively revealing the mechanism of life. In the light of actual progress this is quite untrue, and can only be described as claptrap. . . . Science brings us to a point at which we require more than Science." Biologist Haldane takes philosophy seriously. To him, philosophy is only another word for religion. But orthodox religion will not find much in common with such statements as this: "Belief of any kind in what is supernatural seems...