Word: progress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kissed was to be as good as married. Young men of today are bolder, and young ladies far less scrupulous. To enjoy the play version of "Pride and Prejudice" fully we advise that after you have completely relaxed in your leather-backed chair at the Colonial, forget all the progress of the last two centuries in the mating arts, and reduce your idea of the animal, woman to a mere bundle of hovering, pent-up passion, afraid to let herself loose...
Sunday night in a long fest of bull with friends and a discussion (invoked by the hideous fact of our common servitude under Mr. Brinton in Intellectual History) of what is progress. Which tied us up in a thousand knots such as what is civilization what is man what is science what is anything. Some of us wanted to let it go at that and make up limericks...
...with the Constitution of the United States as it stands today. The vital need is not an alteration of our fundamental law but an increasingly enlightened view with reference to it. Difficulties have grown out of its interpretation; but rightly considered, it can be used as an instrument of progress and not as a device for prevention of action...
Excerpts: "In recent times, . . . certain groups within the legal profession have done much to block progress and to befuddle the legislative processes. Such activities . . . have served to bring the profession into public disrepute." "The impression [has been created! that the profession serves as an instrument of obstruction. We believe this impression is fundamentally false...
...post in America, the deanship of the Harvard Law School has achieved a secondary rank all its own. A long list of distinguished jurists have occupied it. While the school faces able rivals today, it assumed the leadership of legal education under Dean Langdell and its contribution to the progress of the nation's law in every field, public and private, continues high...